The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word NEED , but the solution may also be DEARTH which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).
Want crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| NEED | 41 % | 4 |
| DESIRE | 20 % | 6 |
| DEARTH | 10 % | 6 |
| LACK | 7 % | 4 |
| MISS | 4 % | 4 |
| CRAVE | 4 % | 5 |
| PRIVATION | 3 % | 9 |
| YEN | 3 % | 3 |
| SHORTAGE | 1 % | 8 |
| USE | 1 % | 3 |
| ACHE | 1 % | 4 |
| POVERTY | 1 % | 7 |
| NEEDINESS | 1 % | 9 |
Why may DEARTH be the right solution?
"Want" is a synonym of "dearth," which means a scarcity or lack of something. Therefore, "dearth" is the right solution for the crossword clue "Want."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Want
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- desire
- wish
- wishing
- need
- require
- deprivation
- privation
- lack
- deficiency
- crave
- hope
- desirous
Crossword Answer definitions
NEED noun- A requirement for something; something needed.
- Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
- To have an absolute requirement for.
- To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
- (modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).
- To be required; to be necessary.
- To be necessary (to someone).
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 NEED
- Burden
- Poverty-stricken state
- Call for
- Can't live without
- Exigency
- Require
- Requirement
- Requisite
- Scholarship factor
- Shortfall
More clues leading to the result DESIRE
More clues leading to the result DEARTH
More clues leading to the result LACK
- Be caught short
- Be in need of
- Absence
- Ain't got
- Deficiency
- Paucity
- Shortfall
- Be deficient in
- Are deficient in
- Dearth
More clues leading to the result MISS
- Get the wrong idea
- Overlook
- ___ Saigon (Broadway musical)
- Pageant contestant
- Pine for
- Flower girl's courtesy title
- Don't connect
- Be nostalgic for
- Feel nostalgic for
- Take a raincheck
More clues leading to the result CRAVE
- Desire
- Have a yen for
- Hunger for
- Want. Really. Badly.
- Ache for
- Desire strongly
- Long for
- More than want
- Desire with fire
- Lust after
More clues leading to the result PRIVATION
More clues leading to the result YEN
- Craving
- Hankering
- Kyoto cash
- Kyoto currency
- Urge
- Desire
- Itch
- Yearning
- The capital of Japan?
- Major global currency unit worth about a penny
More clues leading to the result SHORTAGE
- Deficiency
- Scarcity
- Trouble in the till
- Dearth
- Insufficient supply
- Deficit.
- Limited supply.
- Lack.
- Deficit
- Want
More clues leading to the result USE
- "It's no __!"
- Avail oneself of
- Consume
- Custom
- Employ
- Exercise
- Function
- IN __ (lavatory sign)
- Make the most of
- Purpose
More clues leading to the result ACHE
- Head starter
- Charley horse
- Dull pain
- Head ailment
- Pain in the neck
- Pine
- Sore point
- Sore spot
- Tummy trouble
- Yearn
More clues leading to the result POVERTY
- Object of a Lyndon Johnson "war"
- LBJ's War on ___
- Sad state
- Destitution
- Indigence
- "The parent of revolution and crime": Aristotle
- Wolf at the door.
- Want.
- National concern
- Meagerness