The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word ROIL which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2025.
Stir up crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ROIL | 30 % | 4 |
| RILE | 19 % | 4 |
| AROUSE | 12 % | 6 |
| AGITATE | 8 % | 7 |
| ROUSE | 7 % | 5 |
| INCITE | 5 % | 6 |
| STOKE | 4 % | 5 |
| FOMENT | 2 % | 6 |
| EXCITE | 2 % | 6 |
| RAISE | 2 % | 5 |
| FAN | 1 % | 3 |
| ROUST | 1 % | 5 |
| AWAKEN | 1 % | 6 |
| PROD | 1 % | 4 |
| WAKEN | 1 % | 5 |
| PROVOKE | 0 % | 7 |
| AWAKE | 0 % | 5 |
| ENGENDER | 0 % | 8 |
| INFLAME | 0 % | 7 |
| WHET | 0 % | 4 |
| ENLIVEN | 0 % | 7 |
| EVOKE | 0 % | 5 |
| OISE | 0 % | 4 |
| IRE | 0 % | 3 |
| JOSTLE | 0 % | 6 |
| ANIMATE | 0 % | 7 |
| ENKINDLE | 0 % | 8 |
Why may STOKE be the right solution?
The answer "STOKE" is the right solution for the clue "Stir up" because "stoke" means to add fuel or provoke a reaction, which aligns with the idea of stirring something up.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Stir up
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- instigate
- foment
- agitate
- inflame
- incite
- disturb
- ignite
- heat
- shake up
- set off
- commove
- fire up
Crossword Answer definitions
ROIL verb- To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of.
- To annoy; to make someone angry.
- To bubble, seethe.
- To wander; to roam.
- To romp.
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 ROIL
More clues leading to the result RILE
More clues leading to the result AROUSE
More clues leading to the result AGITATE
- Stir up
- Whip into a lather
- Perturb
- Boil over
- Rattle
- Fluster
- Part of a wash cycle
- Rile up
- Joggle
- Bring to a fever pitch
More clues leading to the result ROUSE
More clues leading to the result INCITE
- Spur, as to riot
- Stir up
- Egg on
- Stir up, as a riot
- Provoke
- Stir
- Agitate, as to riot
- Stimulate
- Fire up
- Act as a catalyst
More clues leading to the result STOKE
- Feed the fire
- Keep blazing, as the fireplace
- Add fuel to the fire
- Fan the flames
- Feed fuel to
- Tend to the flames
- Feed the furnace
- Feed with fuel
- Add fuel to
- Feed the flames
More clues leading to the result FOMENT
More clues leading to the result EXCITE
More clues leading to the result RAISE
- Bring up
- Bump
- Pay boost
- Post-review reward
- What you do with a good hand
- Worker's dream
- __ eyebrows (cause surprise)
- Increase
- Poker ploy
- Union demand
More clues leading to the result FAN
- 1996 De Niro film, with "The"
- August appliance
- Enthusiast
- Strike out
- Swing and miss
- Bleacherite
- Engine part
- Kind of mail
- Air mover
- Summer cooler
More clues leading to the result ROUST
- Awaken
- Kick out of bed
- Treat roughly
- Wake loudly
- Stir from sleep
- Force out of bed
- Waken rudely
- Awaken rudely
- Force (out of), as bed
- Force out
More clues leading to the result AWAKEN
- Come alive
- Stir up
- Vivify
- Come to
- Stir
- Stop sleeping
- Respond to the alarm
- Hear the alarm
- Rouse
- See the light of day
More clues leading to the result PROD
More clues leading to the result WAKEN
- Rouse from sleep
- Stir
- Rouse
- See the light
- Respond to the rooster
- Arouse
- Greet the day
- Get up
- Arouse from sleep
- Rise, and maybe shine
More clues leading to the result PROVOKE
More clues leading to the result AWAKE
- Alert
- Fully conscious
- Roused
- Up and about
- Come to
- On the ball
- Tossing and turning
- Up and at 'em
- [Answered the alarm, now]
- Open your eyes
More clues leading to the result ENGENDER
- Propagate
- Give rise to
- Bring into being
- Seine feeder
- Bring about
- Precipitate
- Stir up
- Produce
- Cause
- Call forth.
More clues leading to the result INFLAME
- Excite
- Stir up
- Arouse, as passion
- Kindle, as passions
- Spark anger
- Incite to passion.
- Arouse.
- Incite to jealousy
- Make angry
- Provoke
More clues leading to the result WHET
- Hone
- Sharpen
- Stimulate
- Sharpen, as a blade
- Sharpen, as a knife
- Use a strop
- Make keen
- Make keener
- Give an edge to
- Stimulate, as an appetite
More clues leading to the result ENLIVEN
- Energize
- Animate
- Boost the entertainment value of, say
- Jazz up
- Intensify
- Make more engaging
- Spice up
- Stir up
- Pep up
- Add spice to
More clues leading to the result EVOKE
- Bring to mind
- Call forth
- Arouse
- Bring to life
- Elicit
- Bring out
- Call to mind
- Recreate, in a way
- Bring on reminiscences
- Draw forth
More clues leading to the result OISE
- Arrowrock Dam's river
- River near Chantilly
- Seine feeder
- Commercial waterway of France
- French river
- Seine tributary
- Where the Aisne ends
- It rises in Belgium
- Aisne's end
- Compiégne's river
More clues leading to the result IRE
More clues leading to the result JOSTLE
- Hit against
- Nudge
- Disturb
- Elbow roughly
- Elbow
- Stir up
- Elbow roughly and rudely
- Shove
- Push through a crowd
- Get pushy in a crowd
More clues leading to the result ANIMATE
- Do cartooning
- Enliven
- Put in cels
- Give life-like qualities to
- Able to move
- Work for Disney
- Work for Warner Brothers, maybe
- Lively
- Get things moving
- Work on a Pixar movie