Crossword clue
Nada crossword clue
12 words in our dictionary can answer the crossword clue "nada", from as short as 3 letters up to 7, 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 7, so find your row and ignore the rest.
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What this list looks like
Length 3 carries 3 answers, the largest group on this page.
Setters reach for 3-letter answers constantly, and here that means NIL, NIX, ZIP.
The list mixes 11 synonyms with 1 example of the thing itself.
Which one does the setter mean?
Three squares is NIL, NIX or ZIP. ZIP is the most likely if the puzzle is American, which it usually is when the clue itself is Spanish slang.
How these differ
NADA is Spanish for nothing and entered American English through the southwest, carrying a shrug the English words lack. Of the alternatives, ZIP and ZILCH are its closest equivalents in tone. NIL and NAUGHT are formal and slightly old-fashioned. ZERO and NULL are precise: NULL in particular means absent rather than zero. CIPHER and CYPHER are the same word twice and are the oldest of the group, from the Arabic sifr meaning empty, which is also where zero itself comes from by a longer route.
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Where these answers come from
No puzzle was consulted to build this page. Every word above is recorded by WordNet as meaning “nada” or as naming a kind of it, and each one is in the 173,000-wordlist this site searches. Moby Thesaurus lists 9 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 "nada"?
- There is more than one. 12 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 NIL, NIX or ZIP. ZIP is the most likely if the puzzle is American, which it usually is when the clue itself is Spanish slang.
- How many letters is the answer to "nada"?
- Anything from 3 to 7. The length with the most candidates is 3. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.
- How reliable are these answers?
- 9 of the 12 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.