What is the answer to the crossword clue "entice"?

There is more than one. 10 words in our dictionary fit this clue, and which one a puzzle wants depends on the length of the slot and the crossing letters. Four squares is LURE, which is the closest single word to entice and the answer this clue usually wants. BAIT also fits four and is the thing rather than the act, so the crossings should decide it.

How many letters is the answer to "entice"?

Anything from 4 to 7. The length with the most candidates is 4. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.

How reliable are these answers?

5 of the 10 appear in two independently compiled reference works, WordNet and Moby Thesaurus, rather than one. All of them are in the 173,000-word dictionary this site searches. None of them comes from any published puzzle.

Crossword clue

Entice crossword clue

10 words in our dictionary can answer the crossword clue "entice", from as short as 4 letters up to 7, grouped below by the length of your slot.

Written by Blake Boege

Answers by length

Read the row that matches your slot. LURE is the shortest answer here and TWEEDLE the longest.

Letters	Answers
4	lureconfirmed by two sources baitconfirmed by two sources call hook
5	temptconfirmed by two sources decoyconfirmed by two sources snare stool
6	seduceconfirmed by two sources
7	tweedle

What this list looks like

Length 4 carries 4 answers, the largest group on this page.

At 4 letters you have LURE and BAIT and CALL and HOOK, and short answers like these turn up far more often than their share of the dictionary suggests.

The list mixes 2 synonyms with 8 examples of the thing itself.

Which one does the setter mean?

Four squares is LURE, which is the closest single word to entice and the answer this clue usually wants. BAIT also fits four and is the thing rather than the act, so the crossings should decide it.

How these differ

LURE and TEMPT are the general words, TEMPT carrying a faint moral charge that LURE does not. BAIT, DECOY, SNARE and HOOK all come from hunting and fishing and imply a trap at the end of the enticement rather than merely an attraction. SEDUCE narrowed to the sexual sense only recently and still means to lead astray generally in formal writing. STOOL is the trapping sense behind stool pigeon, a decoy bird tied to a stool.

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Where these answers come from

These came out of a dictionary. Every word above is recorded by WordNet as meaning “entice” or as naming a kind of it, and each one is in the 173,000-wordlist this site searches. Moby Thesaurus lists 5 of them too. We hold no newspaper's answer key and reproduce no published crossword.

Common questions

What is the answer to the crossword clue "entice"?: There is more than one. 10 words in our dictionary fit this clue, and which one a puzzle wants depends on the length of the slot and the crossing letters. Four squares is LURE, which is the closest single word to entice and the answer this clue usually wants. BAIT also fits four and is the thing rather than the act, so the crossings should decide it.
How many letters is the answer to "entice"?: Anything from 4 to 7. The length with the most candidates is 4. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.
How reliable are these answers?: 5 of the 10 appear in two independently compiled reference works, WordNet and Moby Thesaurus, rather than one. All of them are in the 173,000-word dictionary this site searches. None of them comes from any published puzzle.