Woman crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Woman” are GIRL, LADY or BIRD, with 4 letters. Below are 87 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

DOG 3 letters · noun

a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman “she's a real dog”

GIRL 4 letters · noun

a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved “his girlfriend kicked him out”

MODEL 5 letters · noun

a woman who wears clothes to display fashions

MOTHER 6 letters · noun

a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother) “the mother of three children”

BAGGAGE 7 letters · noun

a worthless or immoral woman

MISTRESS 8 letters · noun

an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man

MANNEQUIN 9 letters · noun

a woman who wears clothes to display fashions “she was too fat to be a mannequin”

SWEETHEART 10 letters · noun

a very attractive or seductive looking woman

SHEPHERDESS 11 letters · noun

a woman shepherd

BACHELORETTE 12 letters · noun

a young unmarried woman who lives alone

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, GIRL, LADY, BIRD, SLIP, DISH and DOLL all fit. The first letter settles most of it: G → GIRL · L → LADY · B → BIRD · S → SLIP · D → DISH, DOLL. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, MODEL, HONOR, SHIFT, BROAD, NURSE and STAYS all fit. The third letter tells them all apart: D → MODEL · N → HONOR · I → SHIFT · O → BROAD · R → NURSE · A → STAYS. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 3 squares, DOG, BAG, CAT, COW, GAL and NUN all fit. The first letter settles most of it: D → DOG · B → BAG · C → CAT, COW · G → GAL · N → NUN. 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: “womaned” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “woman” means

• noun: an adult female person (as opposed to a man) (“the woman kept house while the man hunted”)
• noun: a female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man (“he was faithful to his woman”)
• noun: women as a class (“it's an insult to American womanhood”)
• noun: a woman who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force

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