Point crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Point” are SHOW, STOP or HEAD, with 4 letters. Below are 80 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

TIP 3 letters · noun

a V shape

SHOW 4 letters · verb

indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively “I showed the customer the glove section”

PLACE 5 letters · verb

intend (something) to move towards a certain goal

PERIOD 6 letters · noun

a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations “in England they call a period a ‘stop’”

SHARPEN 7 letters · verb

give a point to

INDICATE 8 letters · verb

be a signal for or a symptom of “These symptoms indicate a serious illness”

DESIGNATE 9 letters · verb

indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively

INTERSECTION 12 letters · noun

a point where lines intersect

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, SHOW, STOP, HEAD, SPOT, ITEM and PEAK all fit. The fourth letter tells them all apart: W → SHOW · P → STOP · D → HEAD · T → SPOT · M → ITEM · K → PEAK. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, PLACE, LEVEL, STAGE, GUIDE, STEER and TAPER all fit. The first letter settles most of it: P → PLACE · L → LEVEL · S → STAGE, STEER · G → GUIDE · T → TAPER. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 3 squares, TIP, AIM, DOT, WAY, DAY and END all fit. The first letter settles most of it: T → TIP · A → AIM · D → DOT, DAY · W → WAY · E → END. 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: “pointed” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “point” means

• noun: a geometric element that has position but no extension (“a point is defined by its coordinates”)
• noun: the precise location of something; a spatially limited location (“she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street”)
• noun: a brief version of the essential meaning of something (“get to the point”)
• noun: an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole (“a point of information”)

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