The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word WASP , but the solution may also be HORSEFLY which is one of the most recent solution (2012 in USA Today).
Winged insect crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| WASP | 33 % | 4 |
| HORSEFLY | 33 % | 8 |
| MOTH | 11 % | 4 |
| ANT | 11 % | 3 |
| SCARAB | 11 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Winged insect
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- butterfly
- moth
- horsefly
- wasp
- fly
- imago
- flies
- antlion
- firefly
- punky
- bee
- biting midge
Crossword Answer definitions
WASP noun- Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.
- Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila).
- A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspish.
- A member of the dominant American upper-class culture: a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
- A member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
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 WASP
- Paralyzing stinger
- Stinger
- It stings
- Mud dauber
- Pest control pest
- Hornet or velvet ant
- Nasty stinger
- Nest dweller
- Nesting stinger
- Eaves nester
More clues leading to the result HORSEFLY
- Animal twofer?
- Bloodsucking pest
- Nag biter
- Biting insect
- Equestrian of sorts
- Equine pest
- A freak of the animal kingdom!
- Winged insect
- Pony pest
- Equine pest?
More clues leading to the result MOTH
- Clothes muncher
- Sweater eater
- Cecropia, for one
- Sphinx or emperor
- Butterfly relative
- Closet invader
- Flame follower
- Night-flying insect
- Closet eater?
- Nocturnal pollinator
More clues leading to the result ANT
- "A Bug's Life" character
- Chocolate-covered morsel, to some
- Kitchen intruder
- One of "Them!"
- Picnic crasher
- Tiny toiler
- Uninvited picnic attendee
- Barbecue buttinsky
- Carpenter, for one
- Farm animal?