The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word PION which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2021.
Subatomic particle crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| PION | 31 % | 4 |
| MESON | 28 % | 5 |
| MUON | 14 % | 4 |
| BOSON | 9 % | 5 |
| PROTON | 4 % | 6 |
| POSITRON | 3 % | 8 |
| LEPTON | 3 % | 6 |
| NEUTRINO | 2 % | 8 |
| ELECTRON | 1 % | 8 |
| QUARK | 1 % | 5 |
| NEGATRON | 1 % | 8 |
| HADRON | 1 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Subatomic particle
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- quantum mechanics
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Crossword Answer definitions
PION noun- Any of three semistable mesons, having positive, negative or neutral charge, composed of up and down quarks/antiquarks.
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 PION
- Short-lived particle
- Cyclotron output
- Subatomic particle
- Subatomic partical
- Meson with zero spin
- Zero-spin particle
- Lightest meson
- Certain subatomic particle
- Nuclear particle
- Unstable nuclear particle
More clues leading to the result MESON
- Quark-antiquark combo
- Subatomic particle
- Elementary particle
- Quark + antiquark
- Type of fundamental particle
- Quantum physics particle
- Particle physics particle
- Physics class topic
- Atomic particle
- Particle in a quark model
More clues leading to the result MUON
- Short-lived particle
- Unstable particle
- Unstable subatomic particle
- Short-lived, charged lepton
- Particle that can temporarily replace an electron
- Atomic particle
- Type of unstable particle
- Subatomic particle
- Charged lepton
- Physics particle
More clues leading to the result BOSON
- Subatomic particle
- Photon, for one
- Higgs's particle
- Particle in quantum physics
- Higgs particle
- Elementary particle
- Photons' family, in physics
- Certain nuclear particle
- Physics particle
- Particle physics subject
More clues leading to the result PROTON
- Positive particle
- Subatomic particle
- Atomic particle
- One of helium's two
- Nucleus occupant
- Particle composed of three quarks
- Nuclear particle
- Nucleus component
- Nucleus part
- Fermion family member
More clues leading to the result POSITRON
- Basic particle
- Subatomic particle
- Certain antiparticle
- Antielectron
- The "P" in PET scan
- First antiparticle discovered
- Physics particle
- Beta decay emission, sometimes
- Antiparticle first observed in 1929
More clues leading to the result LEPTON
- Jumped atop
- Electron or muon
- Particle category that includes electrons
- Physicist's particle
- Subatomic particle
- 100th of a drachma
- Physics particle with no strong force
- Elementary particle
- 1/100 of a drachma
- Drachma division
More clues leading to the result NEUTRINO
- Subatomic particle of no charge
- Elementary particle with no charge
- Particle name coined by Enrico Fermi
- Uncharged particle
- Elementary particle
- Massless particle
- It's not charged
- Subatomic particle
- Particle name that Fermi introduced to the scientific community
- It's free of charge
More clues leading to the result ELECTRON
- Collider particle
- Hard-to-pin-down bit
- Elementary particle
- Atomic orbiter
- Kind of microscope
- Atomic particle
- Fundamental particle
- It can't help being negative
- Tiny orbiter
- Negative particle
More clues leading to the result QUARK
- Basic constituent of matter
- What starts each of six long Acrosses
- "Charmed" subatomic particle
- Hypothetical elementary particle
- "Deep Space Nine" character
- Subatomic particle
- Elementary particle
- Subject for Stephen Hawking
- Hypothetical particle
- Basic particle