Crossword-Solution: RULER 5 letters, 258 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Ruler	n.	One who rules; one who exercises sway or authority; a governor.
Ruler	n.	A straight or curved strip of wood, metal, etc., with a smooth edge, used for guiding a pen or pencil in drawing lines. Cf. Rule, n., 7 (a).

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
RULER	anagram	LURER

We have 258 clues for the answer “RULER”

Clue	Answers
12" stick	1 answer
12-inch stick	1 answer
Monarch or measuring stick	1 answer
A measuring stick	1 answer
ARCHON	1 answer
ARKHES	1 answer
Aid for drawing a straight line	1 answer
Aid in drawing straight lines	1 answer
Alanis lyric "Slap me with a splintered ___"	1 answer
Alternative to a tape measure	1 answer
Any king	1 answer
Archon, e.g.	1 answer
Arendelle's Elsa, for one	1 answer
Back-to-school shopping purchase	1 answer
Band dictator	1 answer
Common bookbag item	1 answer
Common measurer	1 answer
Czar or kaiser	1 answer
Czar or king	1 answer
Czar, e.g.	1 answer
Czarina or prime minister	1 answer
Desk-drawer item	1 answer
Despot, for instance	1 answer
Dey or bey	1 answer
Dey or czar	1 answer
Drawer's guide.	1 answer
Drawing help	1 answer
Elizabeth II, e.g.	1 answer
Emir or emperor	1 answer
Emir or emperor, e.g.	1 answer
Emperor, for example	1 answer
Emperor, for instance	1 answer
Empress or queen	1 answer
Empress, e.g.	1 answer
Fiat source	1 answer
Foot of wood	1 answer
Foot-long classroom tool	1 answer
Foot-long measurer	1 answer
Foot-long school tool	1 answer
Foot-long stick	1 answer
Foot-long stick, often	1 answer
Foot-long thing	1 answer
Footlong product	1 answer
Geometry class tool	1 answer
Geometry-class tool	1 answer
Help in drawing the line	1 answer
Help in keeping things straight	1 answer
It can create long lines	1 answer
It can set things straight	1 answer
It helps draw the line	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

RAETE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with RULER (5)

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail, by the judgment of this great tribunal, the American people.

Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861 Abraham Lincoln 1979

Through a chink a coal they gave him, Through the door a burning fire-brand; Ruler in the Land of Spirits, Ruler o’er the dead, they made him, Telling him a fire to kindle For all those that died thereafter, Camp-fires for their night encampments On their solitary journey To the kingdom of Ponemah, To the land of the Hereafter.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

After some time they began to think themselves ill-treated in the appointment of so inert a Ruler, and sent a second deputation to Jupiter to pray that he would set over them another sovereign.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

Quarrel of ancient date or in days still near know I none Twixt the Labdacidan house and our ruler, Polybus’ son.

The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

The other eminent characters by whom the chief ruler was surrounded were distinguished by a dignity of mien, belonging to a period when the forms of authority were felt to possess the sacredness of Divine institutions.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Quotes with RULER (3)

Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler." Kelsier: Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact, I'm far more than just a 'mild' annoyance--people tell me I can be downright frustrating. Might as well use this talent for the cause of good, eh?

Brandon Sanderson The Final Empire

. . . the only legitimate reason that kingship is not attractive to us is because in this age and this world the only kings available are finite and sinful. Listen to C. S. Lewis describe why he believes in democracy: A great deal of democratic enthusiasm descends from the ideas of people like Rousseau, who believed in democracy because they thought mankind so wise and good that everyone deserved a share in the government. The danger of defending democracy on those grounds is…

John Piper

You are the ruler of my heart. There is no measure greater than this.

Truth Devour Unrequited

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 278 times in crossword archives (1946–2025).