Crossword clue
Scoundrel crossword clue
15 words in our dictionary can answer the crossword clue "scoundrel", from as short as 3 letters up to 11, grouped below by the length of your slot.
Written by Blake Boege
Answers by length
9 different lengths answer this one. Yours is whichever row matches the squares in the grid.
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What this list looks like
The 5-letter row is the crowded one, holding 3 of the 15.
The short ones are worth learning: CAD, DOG at 3 letters, which is where a setter goes when the grid is tight.
1 of these mean the same as the clue and 14 are kinds of it, which is a distinction worth holding on to when two look equally good.
Which one does the setter mean?
Three squares is CAD. It is the compact, slightly old-fashioned word for a man who behaves badly towards women, and it is the answer this clue produces more often than any other. Four squares is HEEL, which means much the same thing with less tweed about it.
How these differ
CAD and BOUNDER are Edwardian and specifically about ungentlemanly conduct. HEEL is the American equivalent and blunter. KNAVE, VARLET and RAPSCALLION are deliberately archaic, the last two closer to mischief than menace. ROGUE and RASCAL are the affectionate end of the range: you can call a child a rascal. BLACKGUARD is the harshest word here and is pronounced blaggard. VILLAIN is the only one that implies actual crime rather than bad character.
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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 “scoundrel” or as naming a kind of it, and each one is in the 173,000-wordlist this site searches. Moby Thesaurus lists 10 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 "scoundrel"?
- There is more than one. 15 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 CAD. It is the compact, slightly old-fashioned word for a man who behaves badly towards women, and it is the answer this clue produces more often than any other. Four squares is HEEL, which means much the same thing with less tweed about it.
- How many letters is the answer to "scoundrel"?
- Anything from 3 to 11. The length with the most candidates is 5. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.
- How reliable are these answers?
- 10 of the 15 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.