The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ONSET , but the solution may also be OUTSET which is one of the most recent solution (2021 in LA Times).
Start crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ONSET | 49 % | 5 |
| OUTSET | 11 % | 6 |
| INITIATE | 6 % | 8 |
| ENTER | 4 % | 5 |
| BEGIN | 4 % | 5 |
| OPEN | 4 % | 4 |
| GETGO | 2 % | 5 |
| ORIGINATE | 2 % | 9 |
| SCARE | 2 % | 5 |
| SETOUT | 2 % | 6 |
| ADVENT | 1 % | 6 |
| SETINMOTION | 1 % | 11 |
| GITGO | 1 % | 5 |
| ORIGIN | 1 % | 6 |
| SETTO | 0 % | 5 |
| INAUGURATE | 0 % | 10 |
| DEPART | 0 % | 6 |
| INTRO | 0 % | 5 |
| OPENER | 0 % | 6 |
| ACTIVATION | 0 % | 10 |
| COMMENCE | 0 % | 8 |
| SETIN | 0 % | 5 |
| ACTIVATE | 0 % | 8 |
| LEADOFF | 0 % | 7 |
| STRIKEUP | 0 % | 8 |
| LAUNCH | 0 % | 6 |
| FLINCH | 0 % | 6 |
| GETGOING | 0 % | 8 |
| JOLT | 0 % | 4 |
| INTRODUCE | 0 % | 9 |
| SEED | 0 % | 4 |
| SHY | 0 % | 3 |
| WINCE | 0 % | 5 |
| ACTUATE | 0 % | 7 |
| ENTERON | 0 % | 7 |
| DAWN | 0 % | 4 |
| GETUNDERWAY | 0 % | 11 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Start
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- begin
- beginning
- commence
- get
- outset
- initiate
- jump
- depart
- kickoff
- offset
- start up
- go
Crossword Answer definitions
ONSET noun- An attack; an assault especially of an army.
- The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent.
- The initial portion of a syllable, preceding the syllable nucleus.
- (acoustics) The beginning of a musical note or other sound, in which the amplitude rises from zero to an initial peak.
- A setting about; a beginning.
- Anything added, such as an ornament or as a useful appendage.
- To assault; to set upon.
- To set about; to begin.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
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More clues leading to the result ONSET
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More clues leading to the result INITIATE
More clues leading to the result ENTER
- "Step right in!"
- "__ Laughing" ('67 film)
- Log
- Oft-used computer key
- PC key
- Stage direction
- Become a member
- Computer key
- Go in
- Go onstage
More clues leading to the result BEGIN
- Start the ball rolling
- Camp David Accords signer
- Israeli leader
- Camp David participant
- Get the ball rolling
- "Hit it!"
- Kick off
- Inaugurate
- Start
- Commence
More clues leading to the result OPEN
- "___ Sesame!"
- Begin bidding
- Certain tourney
- Hold jacks or better
- Kind of enrollment
- Ready for business
- Receptive
- Start the bidding
- Start the business day
- Storefront sign
More clues leading to the result GETGO
- Beginning
- From the __ (all along)
- Very start
- Square one
- From the ___ (since the beginning, slangily)
- Square one, slangily
- Square one, in slang
- Slangy beginning
- Beginning, so to speak
- Starting point
More clues leading to the result ORIGINATE
More clues leading to the result SCARE
- Frighten
- Haunted house result
- Kind of tactics
- __ up (gather)
- __ tactics
- __ up (gather, in a way)
- Alarm
- Really frighten
- Freak out
- Frighten the bejeezus out of
More clues leading to the result SETOUT
- Intend (to)
- Embark
- Hit the trail
- Begin
- Begin a journey
- Embark, as on a journey
- Commence
- Begin a trip
- Begin traveling
- Undertake
More clues leading to the result ADVENT
- Pre-Christmas season
- Arrival
- Second Coming
- Coming
- Pre-Christmas period
- Pre-Christmas time
- Beginning
- Onset
- The four Sundays before Christmas.
- Period preceding Christmas.
More clues leading to the result SETINMOTION
More clues leading to the result GITGO
- Starting point
- Very beginning, in dialect
- Very beginning, slangily
- Beginning
- Slangy start
- Square one
- Very start, in country slang
- Starting point, slangily
- Slangy starting point
- Beginning, informally
More clues leading to the result ORIGIN
- Start
- Ancestry
- Spring
- Beginning
- Where the x- and y-axes meet in math
- __ of Species (Darwin)
- Darwin's "___ of Species"
- Where a Cartesian graph's axes meet
- Word in a Darwin title
- Starting point
More clues leading to the result SETTO
More clues leading to the result INAUGURATE
More clues leading to the result DEPART
More clues leading to the result INTRO
- Opening remarks, casually
- Emcee's line
- Opening remarks
- Within, in combinations
- Mission starter
- Opening musical passage
- Emcee's lines
- Short beginning
- Emcee's task
- First song on a CD
More clues leading to the result OPENER
- First of a series
- Game one
- Church key
- Bartender's need
- First game of a series
- First game of the season
- Bridge hand good enough to start the bidding with
- Church key, e.g.
- Game 1
- First game
More clues leading to the result ACTIVATION
More clues leading to the result COMMENCE
More clues leading to the result SETIN
- Place an impression on stone
- __ stone (unchangeable)
- Become prevalent
- Take hold
- Arrive gradually, as darkness
- Direct toward shore
- Got under way
- Become established
- Take effect
- Become permanent
More clues leading to the result ACTIVATE
- Energize
- Turn on
- Revivify.
- Create or organize.
- Put into operation.
- Put into service.
- Set in motion.
- Push a button
- Cause to function
- Call up, as reservists
More clues leading to the result LEADOFF
- Begin (appropriately)
- Batting position
- "Bat first," in the national pastime
- Begin
- Bat first
- Bat first.
- Start.
- Begin.
- Start the ball rolling
- First up
More clues leading to the result STRIKEUP
- Start, as a conversation
- Begin
- Begin, as a conversation
- Initiate, as a conversation
- "___ the band . . . "
- Initiate
- Start off
- Start
- ____ the Band : 1940 movie
More clues leading to the result LAUNCH
- Send into space, say
- Big moment at NASA
- Give impetus to
- Marketing event
- Initiate
- Get off the ground, in a way
- Start
- Set in motion
- Catapult
- Cape Canaveral event
More clues leading to the result FLINCH
- Shrink back
- React defensively
- Shrink
- Start
- Draw back
- Show pain
- Recoil slightly, as from an oncoming punch
- Recoil
- Reflex response to a sudden pain
More clues leading to the result GETGOING
More clues leading to the result JOLT
- Burst of electricity
- Shake up
- Elbow hard
- Nasty shock
- Rude awakening
- Shock
- Soda whose original slogan was "All the sugar and twice the caffeine"
- Stun
- Wake-up shock
- Quite a shock
More clues leading to the result INTRODUCE
More clues leading to the result SEED
- Kind of pearl
- Pet-shop vittles
- Plant
- Sow
- Tourney rank
- Growing need
- It's for the birds
- It's scattered in spring
- Parakeets' eats
- Peach pit
More clues leading to the result SHY
- Bashful
- Short
- " ... twice __."
- Not at all outgoing
- Unlikely to mix
- Averse to first moves
- Retiring
- Tending to shrink
- Like a wallflower
- Owing
More clues leading to the result WINCE
- Betray an igry feeling, say
- React to bad news
- React to something cringeworthy
- Recoil in pain
- Show pain
- Pained expression
- Flinch
- React to a sting
- Grimace
- Possible reaction to a bad pun
More clues leading to the result ACTUATE
- Put into motion
- Impel
- Put in motion
- Set in motion
- Turn on
- Set into motion
- Start a process
- Incite
- Get going
- Move or incite to action.
More clues leading to the result ENTERON
- Begin to take action
- Begin, as an adventure
- Set about
- Begin
- Digestive tract.
- Begin.
- Start.
- Undertake.
- Undertake
- Embryonic system
More clues leading to the result DAWN
- Daybreak
- Onset
- Grow light
- Beginning
- Vampire's curfew
- Time with a crack?
- Day opener
- Sunrise
- What Homer called "rosy-fingered"
- 4 Seasons hit of 1964