The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word STEP which also is the latest solution we found used in Chronicle of Higher Education in 2015.
Tread crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| STEP | 59 % | 4 |
| FOOTSTEP | 23 % | 8 |
| RUNG | 5 % | 4 |
| STEPON | 5 % | 6 |
| PACE | 5 % | 4 |
| STRIDE | 5 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Tread
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- trample
- stride
- pace
- step
- walk
- walking
- footing
- break
- footstep
- trap
- move
- trace
Crossword Answer definitions
STEP noun- An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
- A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
- A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
- A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
- The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
- A small space or distance.
- A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
- A gait; manner of walking.
- Proceeding; measure; action; act.
- (plural) A walk; passage.
- (plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
- A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
- (machines) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
- (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
- The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
- (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
- A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
- A stepsibling.
- To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
- To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
- To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
- To move mentally; to go in imagination.
- To set, as the foot.
- To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
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 STEP
- "Watch your ____!"
- A to B, i.e.
- Dance part
- Distance from A to B, e.g.
- Instruction-sheet part
- Plan part
- Procedure part
- You may have to watch yours
- "One ___ at a time"
- Astaire movement
More clues leading to the result FOOTSTEP
- Sound of someone walking
- Suspenseful movie effect
- Suspense movie sound
- One may echo in an alley
- Small distance
- Pace
- Short distance
- Sometimes portentous sound.
- Tread.
- Pedestrian sound.
More clues leading to the result RUNG
- A step up
- Ladder bar
- Part of a ladder
- Step on a rope ladder
- Step up
- Ladder step
- Hierarchy level
- Ladder section
- Chair leg crosspiece
- Ladder crosspiece
More clues leading to the result STEPON
- RESTAURANT SIGN BECOMES ESCALATOR SIGN
- Smoosh
- Trample
- "___ no pets" (palindromic pet shop sign?)
- Board
- Accidentally crush, maybe
- Quash
- Squash
- Squash, perhaps
- Squish
More clues leading to the result PACE
- Runner's rate
- 8 minutes per mile, e.g.
- New York City campus
- It might need to be picked up
- Act worried
- Salsa that isn't "made in New York City!?!?"
- Wear out the carpet
- Show impatience
- Exhibit impatience
- Rate