The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word BAR , but the solution may also be SORE which is one of the most recent solution (2021 in New York Times).
Tender spot? crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| BAR | 48 % | 3 |
| SORE | 17 % | 4 |
| GOAL | 17 % | 4 |
| BRUISE | 9 % | 6 |
| ATM | 4 % | 3 |
| CASHBOX | 4 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Tender spot?
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- bruise
- contusion
- bar
- goal
- sore
- hag
- note
- shin
- token
- touched
- trap
- fondness
Crossword Answer definitions
BAR noun- A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
- A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is 1/4 inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
- A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
- A broad shaft, or band, or stripe.
- A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
- Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨
- ⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly including oblique marks such as the slash.
- The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
- A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is negative (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
- A business licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house.
- The counter of such premises.
- A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
- (by extension, in combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar etc.) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
- An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.
- An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
- An establishment offering cosmetic services.
- An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
- Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
- (whimsical, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
- (Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
- The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay
- "the Bar" or "the bar" The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
- (metonym, "the Bar", "the bar") Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others.
- One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
- A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
- One of those musical sections.
- A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault
- Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
- (most codes) The crossbar.
- The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
- An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act
- A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
- A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
- One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.
- A city gate, in some British place names.
- A drilling or tamping rod.
- A vein or dike crossing a lode.
- A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
- The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
- (in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
- To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
- To prohibit.
- To lock or bolt with a bar.
- To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
- Except, other than, besides.
- Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
- A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.
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 BAR
- Kind of code
- Milky Way unit
- Prevent
- Refuse admission to
- Serving counter
- Soap unit
- Word in many ranch names
- Word with roll or salad
- Close off
- Exclude
More clues leading to the result SORE
- Aching
- Hot under the collar
- Saddle ____ (equestrian's woe)
- Ticked
- Ticked off
- Inflamed and painful
- Painful place
- Steamed
- Tender
- Touchy
More clues leading to the result GOAL
- Aim
- Aspiration
- Objective
- Scored by Wayne Gretzky
- Part of a hat trick
- Point from a header, maybe
- Cristiano Ronaldo highlight
- Gretsky achievement
- Netted puck
- Soccer broadcast cry
More clues leading to the result BRUISE
- Fruit flaw
- Contusion
- Result of a punch, maybe
- Tender spot
- Purple mark
- Injure slightly
- Insult
- Black-and-blue mark, e.g.
- Banana blemish
- Result of a big hit
More clues leading to the result ATM
- Bank adjunct, for short
- Banking device, for short
- Cask kiosk
- It requires a PIN
- Sat. night savior, maybe
- Twenty dispenser
- Bank ext.
- Banking robot
- Cash dispenser
- Cash vendor?