The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word HAD , but the solution may also be TOOK which is one of the most recent solution (2022 in New York Times).
Swindled crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| HAD | 19 % | 3 |
| STUNG | 15 % | 5 |
| ROOKED | 10 % | 6 |
| CONNED | 7 % | 6 |
| HOSED | 5 % | 5 |
| FLEECED | 5 % | 7 |
| GYPPED | 5 % | 6 |
| BILKED | 3 % | 6 |
| BITTEN | 3 % | 6 |
| TAKEN | 3 % | 5 |
| DUPED | 3 % | 5 |
| TOOK | 3 % | 4 |
| EUCHRED | 3 % | 7 |
| DIDIN | 2 % | 5 |
| BUNCOED | 2 % | 7 |
| ROPEDIN | 2 % | 7 |
| FINAGLED | 2 % | 8 |
| SHAFTED | 2 % | 7 |
| BURNT | 2 % | 5 |
| TOOKIN | 2 % | 6 |
| ROGUED | 2 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Swindled
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- cheated
- deceived
- stolen
- tricked
- victimised
- scammed
- conned
- defrauded
- bilked
- swindlers
- fraudulently
- defraud
Crossword Answer definitions
HAD verb- To possess, own.
- To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
- Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
- To partake of (a particular substance, especially food or drink, or action or activity).
- To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
- To experience, go through, undergo.
- To be afflicted with, suffer from.
- (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect.
- Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
- (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
- To give birth to.
- To engage in sexual intercourse with.
- To accept as a romantic partner.
- (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
- (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
- (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
- (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
- To defeat in a fight; take.
- (obsolete outside Ireland) To be able to speak (a language).
- To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
- To trick, to deceive.
- (often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
- (often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
- To host someone; to take in as a guest.
- To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
- (of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
- To make an observation of (a bird species).
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 HAD
- Owned
- Hoodwinked
- "I've been ___!"
- Scammed
- Tricked
- Rooked
- Swindled
- "This ___ better be good!"
- "___ enough?"
- Consumed
More clues leading to the result STUNG
- Attacked by jellyfish
- Conned
- Taken aback
- Bitten by a bug
- Made smart?
- Insulted
- Wounded by a wasp
- Attacked, bee-style
- Overcharged
- Smarted
More clues leading to the result ROOKED
More clues leading to the result CONNED
- Pulled a fast one
- Took in
- Swindled
- Flimflammed
- Ripped off
- Took
- Hustled
- Fooled in a swindle
- Put something over on
- Learned by perusal.
More clues leading to the result HOSED
- Off or down preceder
- ____ down (watered)
- Taken out
- Cheated, slangily
- Cheated, in slang
- Worked on the deck
- Swindled
- Cheated, so to speak
- Tricked, slangily
- Doused, firefighter-style
More clues leading to the result FLEECED
More clues leading to the result GYPPED
More clues leading to the result BILKED
More clues leading to the result BITTEN
- Visited by a mosquito
- Werewolf-struck
- Waylaid by mosquitoes, say
- Attacked by mosquitoes
- Swindled
- Stung, in a way
- Attacked by Dracula, say
- Like a mosquito victim
- Nibbled on
- Attacked by fleas
More clues leading to the result TAKEN
- "The Road Not ___" (Frost poem)
- Spoken for
- Occupied
- "Is that seat ___?"
- In use
- 2008 action film
- Occupied, as a seat
- Captured
- Captured, as prisoners
- Reserved
More clues leading to the result DUPED
- Fooled
- Hoodwinked
- Took for a ride
- Made a fool of
- Conned
- Scammed
- Bamboozled
- Made a copy of
- Snookered
- Flimflammed
More clues leading to the result TOOK
- Captured
- Captured, as in chess
- Expropriated
- Had the desired effect
- Required, as time
- Required
- Lasted
- Swiped
- Picked up
- Left the ground, with "off"
More clues leading to the result EUCHRED
More clues leading to the result DIDIN
More clues leading to the result BUNCOED
More clues leading to the result ROPEDIN
- Successfully lured
- Lured deceptively
- Enticed via deception
- Lured
- Tricked by a scam
- Enticed
- Enticed: Slang.
- Inveigled: Slang.
- Swindled
- Tricked
More clues leading to the result FINAGLED
- Got through manipulation
- Got by trickery
- Swindled
- Advanced via bamboozlement
- Schemed
- Achieved through trickery
- Got via guile
More clues leading to the result SHAFTED
- Like pikes and poleaxes
- Conned, so to speak
- Treated unfairly
- Ill-used
- Given a raw deal, slangily
- Given a raw deal
- Given the short end of the stick
- Swindled
- Treated very unfairly, in slang
- Treated harshly
More clues leading to the result BURNT
- Well past well-done
- Charred
- Beyond tanned
- Oxidized
- Beyond toasted
- Rather overdone
- Incinerated
- Beyond well done
- Set a match to
- Left on the grill too long
More clues leading to the result TOOKIN
- Adopted
- Altered, in a way
- Received or deceived
- Grossed
- Provided lodging for
- Noticed
- Bamboozled
- Hemmed up
- Adopted, as a pet
- Received.