Assumed truth

The answer

AXIOM

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AXIOM answer page.

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for AXIOM

Every other clue in this collection answered by AXIOM, most used first.

• Self-evident truth - used 88 times, most recently in 2026
• Truism - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Accepted truth - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Universal principle - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Wise saying - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
• Adage - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Fundamental truth - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Self-evident principle - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
• Accepted principle - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• Postulate - used 8 times, most recently in 2005
• Saw - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• Universal truth - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Established principle - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Geometry basic - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Universally accepted principle - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Words to live by - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Assumed name - ALIAS, used 202 times
• Truth ___ - SERUM, used 31 times
• "That's the truth!" - NOLIE, used 30 times
• "It's the truth!" - NOLIE, used 29 times
• Assumed identity - ALIAS, used 13 times
• Word with truth or blood - SERUM, used 12 times

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