Power crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Power” are MIGHT, FORCE or INDEX, with 5 letters. Below are 81 answers from 3 to 15 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

SAW 3 letters · noun

a power tool for cutting wood

KING 4 letters · noun

a very wealthy or powerful businessperson

MIGHT 5 letters · noun

physical strength

OFFICE 6 letters · noun

(of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power “being in office already gives a candidate a great advantage”

ABILITY 7 letters · noun

possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done

EXPONENT 8 letters · noun

a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself

ATTENTION 9 letters · noun

the faculty or power of mental concentration “keeping track of all the details requires your complete attention”

ELECTRICITY 11 letters · noun

energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor “they built a car that runs on electricity”

STRANGLEHOLD 12 letters · noun

complete power over a person or situation “corporations have a stranglehold on the media”

PREPONDERANCE 13 letters · noun

superiority in power or influence “the preponderance of good over evil”

INEFFECTIVENESS 15 letters · noun

lacking the power to be effective

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, KING, FALL, RULE, LEGS, LOAD and CUBE all fit. The first letter settles most of it: K → KING · F → FALL · R → RULE · L → LEGS, LOAD · C → CUBE. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, MIGHT, FORCE, INDEX, BARON, MOGUL and PARTY all fit. The fourth letter tells them all apart: H → MIGHT · C → FORCE · E → INDEX · O → BARON · U → MOGUL · T → PARTY. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 6 squares, OFFICE, TYCOON, ENERGY, DEGREE, MASTER and SPEECH all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: O → OFFICE · T → TYCOON · E → ENERGY · D → DEGREE · M → MASTER · S → SPEECH. 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: “powered” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “power” means

• noun: possession of controlling influence (“the deterrent power of nuclear weapons”)
• noun: (physics) the rate of doing work; measured in watts (= joules/second)
• noun: possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done (“danger heightened his powers of discrimination”)
• noun: (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power (“during his first year in power”)

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