The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word HEFT , but the solution may also be BURDEN which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in New York Times).
Weight crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| HEFT | 42 % | 4 |
| ONUS | 17 % | 4 |
| TON | 16 % | 3 |
| CARAT | 5 % | 5 |
| OUNCE | 5 % | 5 |
| LOAD | 2 % | 4 |
| POUNDAGE | 2 % | 8 |
| GRAM | 2 % | 4 |
| DRAM | 1 % | 4 |
| IMPORTANCE | 1 % | 10 |
| IMPORT | 1 % | 6 |
| KILO | 1 % | 4 |
| STONE | 1 % | 5 |
| STRESS | 1 % | 6 |
| NOIMINARUSH | 1 % | 11 |
| PULL | 1 % | 4 |
| BURDEN | 1 % | 6 |
| EMPHASIS | 1 % | 8 |
Why may HEFT be the right solution?
The word "heft" means weight or heaviness, making it an appropriate answer for the clue "Weight."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Weight
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- burden
- burthen
- angle
- slant
- exercising weight
- system of weights
- weight down
- weight unit
- weighing
- pounds
- weighed
- weigh
Crossword Answer definitions
HEFT verb- To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
- To throw, cast.
- To rise and fall.
- To utter with effort.
- To pull up with a rope or cable.
- To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.
- To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
- To displace (a vein, stratum).
- To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.
- To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
- To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
- To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
- To rob; to steal from; to plunder.
- Weight.
- Heaviness, the feel of weight.
- The act or effort of heaving; violent strain or exertion.
- The greater part or bulk of anything.
- To lift up; especially, to lift something heavy.
- To test the weight of something by lifting it.
- A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted (accustomed).
- An animal that has become hefted thus.
- (West of Ireland) Poor condition in sheep caused by mineral deficiency.
- (Northern England and Scotland) To make (a farm animal, especially a flock of sheep) accustomed and attached to an area of mountain pasture.
- A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as for a notebook.
- A part of a serial publication.
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 HEFT
- Lift up
- Weight
- Significance
- Test the weight of
- Weightiness
- Hoist
- Pick up
- Hallmark of a tome
- Tome's attribute
- Carry with effort
More clues leading to the result ONUS
- Burden
- Burden of proof
- Liability
- Heavy load
- Blame
- Responsibility
- Challenge
- "I guess the joke's ___, guys"
- Albatross
- Big burden
More clues leading to the result TON
- Coal delivery unit
- Bricks unit?
- Metric __ (1,000 kilos)
- Metric or long
- Weight unit
- Whole bunch
- Won __ soup
- Heavy weight
- Semi unit
- Suffix with simple or single
More clues leading to the result CARAT
- Diamond figure
- Marriage proposal: The ___ and the shtick?
- Diamond measure
- Ring figure
- Lapidary's measure
- Jeweler's weight
- Lapidary's unit
- Stone measurement
- One-fifth of a gram
- Stone's weight
More clues leading to the result OUNCE
- Prevention measure
- Small measure
- Tiny bit
- Weight unit
- Prevention measure?
- Pound part
- Dispensary quantity
- Unit of prevention
- Eighth of a cup
- Snow leopard
More clues leading to the result LOAD
- Fund share premium
- Shipment
- Snootful
- Trucker's burden
- Burden
- Cargo
- Fill a firearm
- Washerful
- Stuff in a truck, perhaps
- Large amount
More clues leading to the result POUNDAGE
More clues leading to the result GRAM
- 15.432 grains
- Ending with cable or candy
- Weed purchase
- Chemist's unit
- Metric mass unit
- Metric unit
- Mass unit
- Fat measure
- Mass of a paper clip, roughly
- Metric weight
More clues leading to the result DRAM
- Small quantity
- Small amount
- Driblet
- Apothecary's measure
- Perfumery unit
- Drug weight
- Little amount
- Small weight
- Spot of brandy
- Small bit of booze
More clues leading to the result IMPORTANCE
More clues leading to the result IMPORT
- Accept from abroad
- Significance
- Buy from overseas
- Saab or Suzuki
- Bring in: from a foreign country
- Bring in from abroad
- Commodity from abroad
- Non-domestic beer, e.g.
- Oil, for many
- Consequence
More clues leading to the result KILO
- High weigh
- 1000 grams
- ___-byte
- Metric prefix
- Bust measurement
- About 2.2 pounds
- 2.2 pounds
- Narcs' unit
- Contraband unit
- Narc's weight
More clues leading to the result STONE
- Actor/director Ezra
- See 45A
- Sharon of "Total Recall"
- Backgammon piece
- Ezra or Sharon
- Harlan or Ezra
- Pelt with rocks
- Punish, in a way
- Throw rocks
- "Platoon" director Oliver
More clues leading to the result STRESS
- Cause of burnout
- Accent
- Emphasize
- Underscore
- Fast-track malady
- High anxiety
- Rat-race result
- Put an accent on
- On-the-job malady
- Pronunciational prominence
More clues leading to the result NOIMINARUSH
More clues leading to the result PULL
- Door word
- Trapshooter's shout
- Weight
- Influence
- Instruction on a door
- Magnetism
- Tow
- Word by a door handle
- Word on a door
- Word above a handle
More clues leading to the result BURDEN
- Unwanted baggage
- Onus
- Load
- Cross to bear
- Albatross
- Weigh down.
- Refrain of a song.
- Load.
- Pack, to a pack animal
- Ball and chain, say