The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word REEK , but the solution may also be ODOR which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).
Stink crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| REEK | 37 % | 4 |
| ODOR | 23 % | 4 |
| ADO | 19 % | 3 |
| MALODOR | 4 % | 7 |
| SMELL | 4 % | 5 |
| HULLABALLOO | 2 % | 11 |
| FUSS | 2 % | 4 |
| TODO | 2 % | 4 |
| RACISTS | 1 % | 7 |
| SMELLBAD | 1 % | 8 |
| HUEANDCRY | 1 % | 9 |
| STENCH | 1 % | 6 |
| FETOR | 1 % | 5 |
Why may ODOR be the right solution?
The answer to "Stink" is "ODOR" because "ODOR" is a synonym for an unpleasant smell.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Stink
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- reek
- stench
- malodor
- fetor
- malodour
- foetor
- odour
- odor
- scent
- smell
- aroma
- suck
Crossword Answer definitions
REEK noun- A strong unpleasant smell.
- Vapour; steam; smoke; fume.
- To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell.
- To be evidently associated with something unpleasant.
- To be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume.
- To emit smoke or vapour; to steam.
- A hill; a mountain.
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 REEK
- Stink
- Emit an odor
- Smell something fierce
- Need a bath badly
- Send out strong odors
- Foul smell
- Make a big stink?
- Smell awful
- Stink and then some
- Stink to high heaven
More clues leading to the result ODOR
- Aroma
- Bouquet
- Emanation
- Fragrance
- Gorgonzola emanation
- Pervasive quality
- Polecat's defense
- Redolence
- Right Guard's target
- Scent
More clues leading to the result ADO
More clues leading to the result MALODOR
More clues leading to the result SMELL
- Need a bath badly
- Get wind of
- Sniff out
- Use one's nose
- "I ________ a rat!"
- Odor
- Common sense
- Detect
- Fish market's pickup?
- Funk
More clues leading to the result HULLABALLOO
More clues leading to the result FUSS
- Act the mother hen
- Bustle
- Nag
- Be finicky
- Sort of budget?
- Needless activity
- Complain about trifles
- Ado
- Play the mother hen
- Bellyache
More clues leading to the result TODO
- Fuss
- List heading
- Brouhaha
- __ list (chores)
- Rowdydow
- Type of list
- Kind of list
- Type of list with chores
- Flap
- "What ___?"
More clues leading to the result RACISTS
- Discriminatory types
- Certain bigots
- Stink
- They're not color-blind
- Believers in the superiority of certain human groups.
- Bigots
- Ones concerned with color
- They think they're superior
- Bigoted bunch
- Archie Bunker types
More clues leading to the result SMELLBAD
More clues leading to the result HUEANDCRY
More clues leading to the result STENCH
- Sign of a clogged toilet, perhaps
- Olfactory offense
- Malodor
- Nose-holding cause
- Sign of spoilage
- Olfactory assault
- Sickening emanation
- Bad smell
- Hardly an enticing aroma
- Dumpster emanation