Even crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Even” are STILL, LEVEL or PLANE, with 5 letters. Below are 33 answers from 3 to 12 letters, best match first in each length, then what each top answer means and how to tell them apart.

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The best answers, explained

YET 3 letters · adverb

to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons “a yet sadder tale”

TRUE 4 letters · adjective

consistent with fact or reality; not false “the story is true”

STILL 5 letters · adverb

to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons “an even (or still) more interesting problem”

SMOOTH 6 letters · adjective

having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities “smooth skin”

REGULAR 7 letters · adjective

occurring at fixed intervals “a regular beat”

STRAIGHT 8 letters · adjective

successive (without a break) “sick for five straight days”

JUSTIFIED 9 letters · adjective

having words so spaced that lines have straight even margins

MELANCHOLY 10 letters · adjective

grave or even gloomy in character

SYMMETRICAL 11 letters · adjective

having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts

EXASPERATION 12 letters · noun

actions that cause great irritation (or even anger)

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, TRUE, FLAT, TIED and GLOW all fit. The third letter tells them all apart: U → TRUE · A → FLAT · E → TIED · O → GLOW. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, STILL, LEVEL, PLANE, EQUAL, FLUSH and AWFUL all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: S → STILL · L → LEVEL · P → PLANE · E → EQUAL · F → FLUSH · A → AWFUL. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 3 squares, YET, EVE, HOT and FIX all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: Y → YET · E → EVE · H → HOT · F → FIX. Fill in that crossing answer first.

Other forms of this clue

Clues often use another form of the word, and the answer then takes the same form: “evened” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “even” means

• adjective: divisible by two
• adjective: equal in degree or extent or amount; or equally matched or balanced (“even amounts of butter and sugar”)
• adjective: being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with) (“an even application of varnish”)
• adjective: symmetrically arranged (“even features”)

A clue usually points at one of these senses, so the right answer is the one that matches the sense the puzzle means: check it against the crossing words.

About these answers

We match the clue against our own thesaurus and dictionary (Open English WordNet): words that mean the same as EVEN, and words whose definition is EVEN. We don't copy answers from newspaper puzzles, so a clue that leans on trivia or wordplay may need the crossing letters instead.