Crossword clue
Skillful crossword clue
7 words in our dictionary can answer the crossword clue "skillful", from as short as 4 letters up to 10, grouped below by the length of your slot.
Written by Blake Boege
Answers by length
Read the row that matches your slot. GOOD is the shortest answer here and PROFICIENT the longest.
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What this list looks like
Setters reach for 4-letter answers constantly, and here that means GOOD, NICE.
Which one does the setter mean?
Five squares is ADEPT and six is EXPERT, and those two carry most grids. If the puzzle is British the spelling SKILFUL with one L is itself an answer, which is worth remembering when a seven-letter slot resists.
How these differ
ADEPT and PROFICIENT both mean competent through training, PROFICIENT the more neutral and ADEPT implying a certain flair. EXPERT is stronger and usually implies a body of knowledge as well as a skill. PRACTICED means the skill was acquired by repetition and says nothing about talent. GOOD and NICE are the loose everyday words, NICE only working in the older sense of precise, as in a nice distinction. SKILFUL and SKILLFUL are the British and American spellings of the clue word itself.
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Where these answers come from
Computed, not copied. Every word above is recorded by WordNet as meaning “skillful” or as naming a kind of it, and each one is in the 173,000-wordlist this site searches. Moby Thesaurus lists 5 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 "skillful"?
- There is more than one. 7 words in our dictionary fit this clue, and which one a puzzle wants depends on the length of the slot and the crossing letters. Five squares is ADEPT and six is EXPERT, and those two carry most grids. If the puzzle is British the spelling SKILFUL with one L is itself an answer, which is worth remembering when a seven-letter slot resists.
- How many letters is the answer to "skillful"?
- Anything from 4 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?
- 5 of the 7 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.