The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SWALE , but the solution may also be MARSH which is one of the most recent solution (2014 in New York Times).
Swampy tract crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
---|---|---|
SWALE | 33 % | 5 |
MARSH | 33 % | 5 |
EVERGLADE | 33 % | 9 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Swampy tract
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- bog
- marsh
- swamp
- fen
- soil
- brook
- rand
- meadow
- wallow
- ing
- slough
- thanksgiving
Crossword Answer definitions
SWALE noun- A low tract of moist or marshy land.
- A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
- A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.
- A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.
- A shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope), whose purpose is to allow water time to percolate into the soil.
- A gutter in a candle.
- To burn slowly.
- To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; waste away without feeding the flame.
- To singe; scorch; dress (as a hog) with burning or singeing.
- To consume with fire; burn.
- To make disappear; cause to waste away; diminish; reduce.
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 SWALE
- Wet land tract
- 1984 Kentucky Derby winner
- Ditch for runoff
- 1984 Derby winner
- Derby winner of 1984
- Low wet stretch
- Wet lowland
- Marshy hollow
- Low bit of land
- Valleylike area
More clues leading to the result MARSH
- Author Ngaio
- Wetland
- Problematic construction site
- Swamp
- "South Park" family
- Dragonfly's habitat
- Moonshiner's sour mixture (or ... where reeds grow)
- Fen
- Brackish land
- Quagmire