The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word LUTE which also is the latest solution we found used in USA Today in 2020.
String instrument crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| LUTE | 38 % | 4 |
| VIOL | 23 % | 4 |
| VIOLA | 15 % | 5 |
| MANDOLIN | 8 % | 8 |
| UKE | 8 % | 3 |
| VIOLIN | 8 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: String instrument
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- stringed instrument
- string
- wind instrument
- musical instrument
- strings
- string band
- keyboard instrument
- chordophone
- string organ
- instrument
- chord
- violin
Crossword Answer definitions
LUTE noun- A fretted stringed instrument of European origin, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
- To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.
- Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.
- A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
- (brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.
- To fix or fasten something with lute.
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 LUTE
- Mandolin cousin
- Pear-shaped instrument
- Stringed instrument
- Guitar's cousin
- Mandolin's cousin
- Minstrel's instrument
- Renaissance fair instrument
- Troubadour's instrument
- Mandolin kin
- Troubadour's prop
More clues leading to the result VIOL
- Baroque instrument
- Bass __ (old instrument)
- Cello's ancestor
- Bad-sounding instrument?
- Its player takes a bow
- Fretted instrument
- Old fiddle
- Cello's cousin
- String instrument
- Old stringed instrument
More clues leading to the result VIOLA
- Cello's kin
- String quartet member
- Stringed instrument
- Bowed instrument for John Cale
- String in a pit
- Four-stringed instrument
- One of the strings
- Kind of pansy
- Pansy kin
- Cello's cousin
More clues leading to the result MANDOLIN
- Instrument in "Friend of the Devil"
- Rod Stewart's "Maggie May" features one
- Guitar's little brother
- Lute's relative
- String instrument
- Lute spin-off
- Teardrop-shaped instrument
- Bluegrass staple
- It resembles a bouzouki
- Instrument
More clues leading to the result UKE
- Arthur Godfrey's instrument
- Guitar's little brother
- Kauai music maker
- Luau instrument
- Maui music-maker
- "Aloha Oe" accompaniment
- Ike's instrument
- Oahu musicmaker, briefly
- Stringed instrument, for short
- Tiny Tim's instrument