Crossword clue
Libertine crossword clue
26 words in our dictionary can answer the crossword clue "libertine", from 3 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. RIP is the shortest answer here and PHILANDERER the longest.
| Letters | Answers |
|---|---|
| 3 |
|
| 4 |
|
| 5 |
|
| 6 |
|
| 7 |
|
| 8 |
|
| 9 |
|
| 10 |
|
| 11 |
|
What this list looks like
6 of these are 9 letters, which is more than any other length manages.
Setters reach for 3-letter answers constantly, and here that means RIP.
16 of the 26 are not synonyms at all but specific kinds of what the clue describes.
Which one does the setter mean?
Four squares is ROUE or RAKE, and both are correct. RAKE is the more common in English puzzles and ROUE, being French and vowel-heavy, is the more useful to a setter, so try ROUE first if the crossings allow it.
How these differ
RAKE is short for rakehell and describes a fashionable man of the eighteenth century who drank, gambled and seduced, and the word carries a certain glamour. ROUE is the French equivalent and carries less, having originally meant one deserving to be broken on the wheel. DEBAUCHEE and PROFLIGATE are the disapproving words, PROFLIGATE also covering waste of money. RIP is old slang for the same man. WOMANIZER, PHILANDERER and ADULTERER are the modern words and are narrower, naming the conduct rather than the character.
Still stuck? Filter by the letters you have
Got a crossing letter? The word finder searches the same dictionary as this page, with a box for the first letter, the last, and anything in between.
Where these answers come from
These came out of a dictionary. Every word above is recorded by WordNet as meaning “libertine” or as naming a kind of it, and each one is in the 173,000-wordlist this site searches. Moby Thesaurus lists 18 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 "libertine"?
- There is more than one. 26 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 ROUE or RAKE, and both are correct. RAKE is the more common in English puzzles and ROUE, being French and vowel-heavy, is the more useful to a setter, so try ROUE first if the crossings allow it.
- How many letters is the answer to "libertine"?
- Anything from 3 to 11. The length with the most candidates is 9. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.
- How reliable are these answers?
- 18 of the 26 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.