The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word PLANET , but the solution may also be URANUS which is one of the most recent solution (1999 in USA Today).
Sun orbiter crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| PLANET | 33 % | 6 |
| URANUS | 33 % | 6 |
| COMET | 33 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Sun orbiter
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- comet
- planet
- uranus
- planetoid
- saturn
- earth
- moon
- pluto
- apolune
- luna
- satellite
- sputnik
Crossword Answer definitions
PLANET noun- Each of the seven major bodies which move relative to the fixed stars in the night sky—the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
- A body which orbits the Sun directly and is massive enough to be in hydrostatic equilibrium (effectively meaning a spheroid) and to dominate its orbit; specifically, the eight major bodies of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. (Pluto was considered a planet until 2006 and has now been reclassified as a dwarf planet.)
- A large body which directly orbits any star (or star cluster) but which has not attained nuclear fusion.
- In phrases such as the planet, this planet, sometimes refers to the Earth.
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 PLANET
- Saturn, but not Taurus
- Mars, e.g.
- Clark Kent's newspaper
- Space revolver
- Star circler
- Rock around a star
- Sun looper
- Krypton or Ork
- Jupiter, but not Zeus
- "The Daily ___" (Lois Lane's employer)
More clues leading to the result URANUS
- One of the planets
- One of the "ice giant" planets
- Planet with a chuckle-inducing name
- William Herschel discovery, 1781
- Body detected in 1781
- Second-last of a series, now
- World found by Herschel
- Neptune neighbour
- Seventh planet
- One of the gas giants