Home crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Home” are HOUSE, PLACE or PLATE, with 5 letters. Below are 25 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

OUT 3 letters · adverb

away from home “they went out last night”

BASE 4 letters · noun

the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end

HOUSE 5 letters · noun

a social unit living together “It was a good Christian household”

FAMILY 6 letters · noun

a social unit living together “he moved his family to Virginia”

NATIONAL 8 letters · adjective

inside the country

HOUSEHOLD 9 letters · noun

a social unit living together “It was a good Christian household”

HABITATION 10 letters · noun

housing that someone is living in

HOUSEHOLDER 11 letters · noun

someone who owns a home

DOMESTICALLY 12 letters · adverb

with respect to home or family “the housewife bored us with her domestically limited conversation”

Telling them apart

With 5 squares, HOUSE, PLACE, PLATE and ABODE all fit. The fourth letter tells them all apart: S → HOUSE · C → PLACE · T → PLATE · D → ABODE. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 6 squares, FAMILY, MENAGE, RETURN, VACUUM and HEARTH all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: F → FAMILY · M → MENAGE · R → RETURN · V → VACUUM · H → HEARTH. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 8 squares, NATIONAL, DOMESTIC, INTERNAL, INTERIOR, DWELLING and DOMICILE all fit. The fifth letter settles most of it: O → NATIONAL · S → DOMESTIC · R → INTERNAL, INTERIOR · L → DWELLING · C → DOMICILE. 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: “homed” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “home” means

• noun: where you live at a particular time (“deliver the package to my home”)
• noun: housing that someone is living in (“they raise money to provide homes for the homeless”)
• noun: the country or state or city where you live (“Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home”)
• noun: (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score (“he ruled that the runner failed to touch home”)

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