Crossword clue
Hodgepodge crossword clue
9 words in our dictionary can answer the crossword clue "hodgepodge", from as short as 6 letters up to 11, grouped below by the length of your slot.
Written by Blake Boege
Answers by length
Read the row that matches your slot. JUMBLE is the shortest answer here and GALLIMAUFRY the longest.
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Which one does the setter mean?
Six squares gives you JUMBLE and RAGBAG, and JUMBLE is the more common answer. If your grid has four, the classic short answer to this clue is OLIO, which our dictionary holds but WordNet does not link to hodgepodge, so it is honestly missing from the list below.
How these differ
These all mean a disordered mixture and differ by what is mixed. JUMBLE and MISHMASH are the plain words. RAGBAG is literally the bag of scraps and implies the parts are worthless. FARRAGO and GALLIMAUFRY both began as food, a farrago being mixed fodder and a gallimaufry a stew of leftovers, and both now describe a confused assortment of ideas. MELANGE is French and the only one of these that can be complimentary. HOTCHPOTCH is the British form of hodgepodge itself, and in law means bringing property back into a common pot for division.
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Where these answers come from
This is a dictionary answering a question, not a copied answer key. Every word above is recorded by WordNet as meaning “hodgepodge” or as naming a kind of it, and each one is in the 173,000-wordlist this site searches. Moby Thesaurus lists 8 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 "hodgepodge"?
- There is more than one. 9 words in our dictionary fit this clue, and which one a puzzle wants depends on the length of the slot and the crossing letters. Six squares gives you JUMBLE and RAGBAG, and JUMBLE is the more common answer. If your grid has four, the classic short answer to this clue is OLIO, which our dictionary holds but WordNet does not link to hodgepodge, so it is honestly missing from the list below.
- How many letters is the answer to "hodgepodge"?
- Anything from 6 to 11. The length with the most candidates is 6. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.
- How reliable are these answers?
- 8 of the 9 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.