The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word RUIN , but the solution may also be TOTAL which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Wreck crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| RUIN | 37 % | 4 |
| TOTAL | 21 % | 5 |
| DERAIL | 7 % | 6 |
| SMASHUP | 6 % | 7 |
| SMASH | 6 % | 5 |
| DESTROY | 4 % | 7 |
| SHATTER | 4 % | 7 |
| UNDO | 3 % | 4 |
| MESS | 3 % | 4 |
| TRASH | 1 % | 5 |
| TAKEAPART | 1 % | 9 |
| RUINATE | 1 % | 7 |
| RENTA | 1 % | 5 |
| MAR | 1 % | 3 |
| DAMAGE | 1 % | 6 |
Why may TOTAL be the right solution?
The word "total" can mean to completely wreck or destroy something, making it the right solution for the clue "Wreck."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Wreck
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- shipwreck
- crash
- wrack
- bust up
- wreckage
- ruin
- ship
- sinking
- derailment
- accident
- car
- derail
Crossword Answer definitions
RUIN noun- (sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
- The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
- Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
- A fall or tumble.
- A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
- Complete financial loss; bankruptcy.
- To cause the fiscal ruin of.
- To destroy or make something no longer usable.
- To cause severe financial loss to; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
- To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.
- To make something less enjoyable or likeable.
- To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.
- To fall into a state of decay.
- To seduce or debauch, and thus harm the social standing of.
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 RUIN
- Destroy
- Destroyed building
- Downfall
- Reduce to bankruptcy
- The road to __
- Destruction
- Completely botch
- Spoil
- Bankrupt
- Excavation site
More clues leading to the result TOTAL
- Summer's end?
- Wreck a car
- Smash to smithereens
- Add up
- All-Bran rival
- Demolish
- Utter
- Life rival
- Smash beyond human recognition
- Wreck
More clues leading to the result DERAIL
- Run off the tracks
- Go off the tracks
- Leave the track
- Knock off the tracks
- Get off the track
- Go off the track
- Put off the tracks
- Get off track?
- Jump the tacks
- Go astray
More clues leading to the result SMASHUP
- Bad car collision
- Serious collision
- Big accident
- Bad accident
- Road clogger
- Road wreck
- Freeway mishap
- Auto mishap
- Wreck
- Collision.
More clues leading to the result SMASH
- Broadway hit
- Hard shot from Sampras
- Type of hit
- Crush
- Flop's opposite
- Big hit
- Huge success
- Big money maker
- Big moneymaker
- Blockbuster
More clues leading to the result DESTROY
More clues leading to the result SHATTER
- Destroy
- Break into bits
- Go to pieces
- Break big-time, as a record
- Smash
- Smash to smithereens
- Break apart
- Break
- Break up
- Break.
More clues leading to the result UNDO
More clues leading to the result MESS
- Boot-camp fare
- Interfere
- Military meal
- Not a pretty sight
- Quantico cuisine
- Recruit's dinner
- Shambles
- Teen's room, often
- Army chow
- Predicament
More clues leading to the result TRASH
- Dumpster filler
- Badmouth
- Odds and ends
- Ransack, slangily
- Refuse
- Rightmost item on a dock, often
- Treat shoddily, as a hotel room
- Valueless stuff you can make a living collecting
- Vandalize
- Junk
More clues leading to the result TAKEAPART
More clues leading to the result RUINATE
- Destroy, old-style
- Cause a collapse
- Destroy, in dialect
- Destroy
- Bring to downfall.
- Demolish.
- Demolish; destroy.
- Wreck.
- Fallen into decay
- Damage, in Dixie
More clues leading to the result RENTA
- See 11D
- See 36-Across
- Oscar de la ___
- See 36A
- ___-wreck
- Oscar de la __
- Car starter?
- ___-car
- ___-cop
- Oscar De La __ (fashion designer)