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

There is more than one. 8 words in our dictionary fit this clue, and which one a puzzle wants depends on the length of the slot and the crossing letters. Three squares is OAF, the standard short answer for a clumsy, slow-witted person. Four squares gives you five candidates, of which LOUT and CLOD are the most common in puzzles.

How many letters is the answer to "lummox"?

Anything from 3 to 10. 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?

7 of the 8 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

Lummox crossword clue

8 words in our dictionary can answer the crossword clue "lummox", from 3 letters up to 10, grouped below by the length of your slot.

Written by Blake Boege

Answers by length

Everything below fits the clue. What separates them is length, running from 3 letters to 10, so find your row and ignore the rest.

Letters	Answers
3	oafconfirmed by two sources
4	clodconfirmed by two sources gawkconfirmed by two sources goon loutconfirmed by two sources lumpconfirmed by two sources
6	lubberconfirmed by two sources
10	stumblebumconfirmed by two sources

What this list looks like

5 of these are 4 letters, which is more than any other length manages.

At 3 letters you have OAF, and short answers like these turn up far more often than their share of the dictionary suggests.

Which one does the setter mean?

Three squares is OAF, the standard short answer for a clumsy, slow-witted person. Four squares gives you five candidates, of which LOUT and CLOD are the most common in puzzles.

How these differ

These separate by which failing they name. OAF, CLOD and LUMP are about slowness of mind and body together. LOUT adds bad manners and is usually applied to young men. GAWK is about awkwardness rather than stupidity, from the same root as gawky. GOON is the odd one: it began as a stupid person, then became hired muscle, and now usually means the second. LUBBER survives mainly at sea, where a landlubber is someone useless on a boat.

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Where these answers come from

These came out of a dictionary. Every word above is recorded by WordNet as meaning “lummox” or as naming a kind of it, and each one is in the 173,000-wordlist this site searches. Moby Thesaurus lists 7 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 "lummox"?: There is more than one. 8 words in our dictionary fit this clue, and which one a puzzle wants depends on the length of the slot and the crossing letters. Three squares is OAF, the standard short answer for a clumsy, slow-witted person. Four squares gives you five candidates, of which LOUT and CLOD are the most common in puzzles.
How many letters is the answer to "lummox"?: Anything from 3 to 10. 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?: 7 of the 8 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.