The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word BLOT , but the solution may also be TINT which is one of the most recent solution (2022 in New York Times).
Stain crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| BLOT | 26 % | 4 |
| DYE | 15 % | 3 |
| IMBRUE | 9 % | 6 |
| SOIL | 9 % | 4 |
| SPOT | 8 % | 4 |
| TAINT | 6 % | 5 |
| SPLOTCH | 4 % | 7 |
| SMEAR | 2 % | 5 |
| TINGE | 2 % | 5 |
| SOILURE | 2 % | 7 |
| MAR | 2 % | 3 |
| TARNISH | 2 % | 7 |
| STIGMA | 2 % | 6 |
| BLOTCH | 2 % | 6 |
| DISHONOR | 2 % | 8 |
| BLUR | 1 % | 4 |
| TINT | 1 % | 4 |
| CORRUPT | 1 % | 7 |
| TINCT | 1 % | 5 |
| DISCOLOR | 1 % | 8 |
| SULLY | 1 % | 5 |
| TAR | 1 % | 3 |
| INKSPOT | 1 % | 7 |
| BEDYE | 1 % | 5 |
| SLUR | 1 % | 4 |
| MACULATION | 1 % | 10 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Stain
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- blot
- smear
- filth
- discoloration
- discolouration
- dirt
- grease
- stigma
- grime
- brand
- soil
- spot
Crossword Answer definitions
BLOT noun- A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
- (by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
- A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier.
- An exposed piece in backgammon.
- To cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
- To soak up or absorb liquid.
- To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
- To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
- To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
- To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
- To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out.
- To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result BLOT
- Smudge
- Stain
- Use a paper towel
- Rorschach pattern
- Splotch
- Rorschach unit
- Inkjet snafu
- Dab dry
- Stain or disgrace
- Rorschach image
More clues leading to the result DYE
- Color
- Hair coloring
- Salon selection
- Woad, e.g.
- Hair preparation
- Job in a beauty parlor
- Cover the gray
- Do batik
- Salon stuff
- Tie-__ ('60s-style)
More clues leading to the result IMBRUE
More clues leading to the result SOIL
- Make dirty
- Earth
- Planting medium
- Potting need
- Erosion loss
- Pollute
- Get dirty
- Dirty
- Gardener's medium
- Planter's medium
More clues leading to the result SPOT
- Dalmatian's name?
- Dry-cleaner's target
- Good name for a leopard?
- It may be soft or sweet
- Locale
- TV commercial
- "See __ run"
- Dick and Jane's dog
- Dick's dog
- Pet's name
More clues leading to the result TAINT
More clues leading to the result SPLOTCH
- Big blemish
- Mess of a mark
- Irregularly shaped stain
- Rorschach image, for example
- Irregular stain
- Big stain
- Good-sized stain
- Dropcloth decoration
- Stain
- Painting mishap
More clues leading to the result SMEAR
- Vilify during a campaign
- Libel
- Mess up the makeup
- Bad mouth
- Talk shit about
- ___ campaign
- Tarnish
- Apply Vaseline
- Besmirch
- Blurry mess
More clues leading to the result TINGE
- Affect slightly
- Slight coloration
- Hint
- Hint of tint
- Faint feeling
- Bit of color
- Slight coloring
- Slight shade
- Hint of color
- Barest trace
More clues leading to the result SOILURE
More clues leading to the result MAR
More clues leading to the result TARNISH
- Stain, as a rep
- Lose luster
- Stain, as a reputation
- Taint
- Stain
- Become discolored, as silverware
- Besmirch
- Sully, as a reputation
- Sully
- Silver flaw
More clues leading to the result STIGMA
- Mark of disgrace
- Sign of disgrace
- Mark of shame
- Blot
- Hawthorne's "scarlet letter," e.g.
- Brand of disgrace
- Bad branding?
- Mark of infamy
- Black eye
- Scarlet letter, e.g.
More clues leading to the result BLOTCH
- Blemish
- Mottle
- Ink stain
- Stain
- Irregular spot
- Measles mark
- Ink spot, e.g.
- Obliteration
- Irregularly shaped spot
- Discoloration
More clues leading to the result DISHONOR
- Bring shame upon
- Shame
- Worst fate for a Klingon
- Stain
- Use calumny
- Ignominy
- Dreaded fate for a samurai
- Infamy
- "Judge Judy's freezing! Put ___"
More clues leading to the result BLUR
- Indistinct sight
- "Song 2" band
- Britpop band with the 2015 album "The Magic Whip"
- Britpop band with the album "13"
- Magoo's vision
- Myope's vision
- Speeder's view?
- Very bad snapshot
- Out of focus image
- Become unfocused
More clues leading to the result TINT
- Barely detectable amount
- Hair dye
- Hint of color
- Nuance
- Slight coloration
- Hue
- Gradation of color
- Hue for the hair
- Salon job
- Shade
More clues leading to the result CORRUPT
- Start of a quote by 36A
- Depraved
- Crooked
- Taint
- Stain
- Debase.
- Taking bribes.
- Debase
- Bribable, say
- Lacking integrity
More clues leading to the result TINCT
- Colored lightly
- Coloring
- Add some color to
- Slight shading
- Color lightly
- Alcohol-based, to a pharmacist (abbr.)
- Touch of color
- Add a bit of color
- Add color to
- Color faintly
More clues leading to the result DISCOLOR
More clues leading to the result SULLY
- Defile
- Besmirch
- Tarnish
- Muck up
- Stain
- 2016 film subtitled "Miracle on the Hudson"
- Pilot played by Hanks
- Besmirch.
- Smirch.
- Tarnish.
More clues leading to the result TAR
- Black gunk
- Defile
- Highway-crew need
- Macadam material
- Pitch
- Pitch yielder
- Roofing material
- Seafarer
- Sticky black stuff
- __ Heel (North Carolinian)
More clues leading to the result INKSPOT
- A cappella group member
- 1940s vocal quartet member
- Laundry challenge
- Problem when using a well?
- Result of a leaky pen
- "If I Didn't Care" group member
- Stain.
- Ivory Watson or Charlie Fuqua, e.g.
- Stain that's hard to remove
- Pen user's stain
More clues leading to the result BEDYE
More clues leading to the result SLUR
- Aspersion
- Pronounce indistinctly
- Disparage
- Calumny
- Bad-mouth
- Cast aspersions on
- Insulting words
- N-bomb, e.g.
- Sound like you've had a few too many
- Speak indistinctly