Find crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Find” are WATCH, CHECK or LEARN, with 5 letters. Below are 43 answers from 4 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

FEEL 4 letters · verb

come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds “I feel that he doesn't like me”

WATCH 5 letters · verb

find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort

CHANCE 6 letters · verb

come upon, as if by accident; meet with “She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day”

RECEIVE 7 letters · verb

receive a specified treatment (abstract) “These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation”

DISCOVER 8 letters · verb

discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes

DETERMINE 9 letters · verb

establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study

UNCOVERING 10 letters · noun

the act of discovering something

BREAKTHROUGH 12 letters · noun

a productive insight

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, FEEL, HEAR, RULE, BUMP, LIKE and TEST all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: F → FEEL · H → HEAR · R → RULE · B → BUMP · L → LIKE · T → TEST. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, WATCH, CHECK, LEARN, INCUR, BREAK and TRIAL all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: W → WATCH · C → CHECK · L → LEARN · I → INCUR · B → BREAK · T → TRIAL. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 6 squares, CHANCE, HAPPEN, NOTICE, OBTAIN, DETECT and REGAIN all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: C → CHANCE · H → HAPPEN · N → NOTICE · O → OBTAIN · D → DETECT · R → REGAIN. 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: “finding” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “find” means

• verb: come upon, as if by accident; meet with (“We find this idea in Plato”)
• verb: discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes
• verb: come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost (“Did you find your glasses?”)
• verb: establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study (“find the product of two numbers”)

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 FIND, and words whose definition is FIND. We don't copy answers from newspaper puzzles, so a clue that leans on trivia or wordplay may need the crossing letters instead.