The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word RILE which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2024.
Tick off crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| RILE | 24 % | 4 |
| IRK | 18 % | 3 |
| IRE | 15 % | 3 |
| MIFF | 13 % | 4 |
| PEEVE | 5 % | 5 |
| ENRAGE | 5 % | 6 |
| ANGER | 4 % | 5 |
| STEAM | 3 % | 5 |
| ANNOY | 3 % | 5 |
| TEE | 2 % | 3 |
| LIST | 2 % | 4 |
| INCENSE | 2 % | 7 |
| COUNT | 1 % | 5 |
| VEX | 1 % | 3 |
| ENUMERATE | 1 % | 9 |
| PIQUE | 0 % | 5 |
| RANKLE | 0 % | 6 |
| DETAIL | 0 % | 6 |
| GALL | 0 % | 4 |
Why may RILE be the right solution?
The term "tick off" means to make someone angry or annoyed. "Rile" is a synonym of "anger" or "annoy," making it the correct answer.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Tick off
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Crossword Answer definitions
RILE verb- To make angry
- To stir or move from a state of calm or order
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 RILE
More clues leading to the result IRK
More clues leading to the result IRE
More clues leading to the result MIFF
- Offend
- Annoy
- Cause annoyance
- Vex
- Give minor offense to
- Tick off
- Irritate
- Vex a bit
- Bend out of shape
- Make sore
More clues leading to the result PEEVE
More clues leading to the result ENRAGE
More clues leading to the result ANGER
- Fit of temper
- Rage
- Breathe fire into
- Indignation
- Conniption cause
- Get one's dander up
- Provoke
- Tee off
- Possibly racist Depp movie Part II
- Fury
More clues leading to the result STEAM
- Kind of bath
- Kind of shovel
- Prepare clams
- Prepare rice
- Propellant for Casey Jones
- Vapor
- Word with iron or bath
- You might blow it off
- Calliope power
- Prepare veggies, in a way
More clues leading to the result ANNOY
- Make hot under the collar
- Pester
- Slightly irritate
- Drive bonkers
- Bug
- Be on the back of
- Get under the collar of
- Be a pain in the neck
- Bother
- Irritate
More clues leading to the result TEE
- Ball prop
- Driver's aid?
- Golfball prop
- Gridiron gadget
- Kind of shirt
- Pigskin's perch
- Pitcher's substitute, in youngsters' baseball
- Three-way intersection
- Tiger's launch pad
- Titleist holder
More clues leading to the result LIST
- A __ (elite)
- Supermarket-shopper's need
- Santa's need
- Word with wish or waiting
- Check off
- Menu
- To-do ___
- A-__ (elite)
- One thing after another
- Roster
More clues leading to the result INCENSE
- Enrage
- Ceremonial odor
- Stuff burnt at church
- Pad perfume?
- Atmosphere enhancer
- You might deliberately burn it down
- Stick in a head shop
- Exasperate
- Smoke in a church
- Burn up
More clues leading to the result COUNT
- Chocula, for one
- Matter
- Tally
- Total number
- Incantation over a flattened boxer
- Get to a figure
- Dracula's title
- Recite numbers in order
- Tick off
- Rank similar to 33-Across
More clues leading to the result VEX
More clues leading to the result ENUMERATE
More clues leading to the result PIQUE
- Arouse
- Snit
- Resentment
- Ill temper
- Excite, as interest
- Annoyance
- Engage, as interests
- Rouse
- Feeling of umbrage
- Arouse, as ire
More clues leading to the result RANKLE
- Irritate
- Annoy
- Fill with resentment
- Annoy no end
- Cause irritation
- Stick in one's craw
- Get one's goat
- Grate on
- Continue to irritate
- Fester in one's mind
More clues leading to the result DETAIL
- Work on a car
- Particular
- Isolated fact
- Large-scale engineering drawing
- Paint pinstripes on, perhaps
- Fine point
- Micromanager's concern
- It may be minor
- Bit of minutiae
- Bit of information