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 |
| FLEECED | 5 % | 7 |
| GYPPED | 5 % | 6 |
| HOSED | 5 % | 5 |
| DUPED | 3 % | 5 |
| TOOK | 3 % | 4 |
| EUCHRED | 3 % | 7 |
| BILKED | 3 % | 6 |
| BITTEN | 3 % | 6 |
| TAKEN | 3 % | 5 |
| FINAGLED | 2 % | 8 |
| SHAFTED | 2 % | 7 |
| BURNT | 2 % | 5 |
| TOOKIN | 2 % | 6 |
| ROGUED | 2 % | 6 |
| DIDIN | 2 % | 5 |
| BUNCOED | 2 % | 7 |
| ROPEDIN | 2 % | 7 |
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 FLEECED
More clues leading to the result GYPPED
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 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 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 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.