Sound of trumpets

The answer

BLARE

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

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1953. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for BLARE

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

• Trumpet sound - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
• Sound loudly - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Loud sound - used 14 times, most recently in 2018
• Trumpet noise - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Play loudly - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Trumpet - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Raucous sound - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
• Loud noise - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Proclaim loudly - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
• Trumpet blast - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Proclaim noisily - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Strident sound - used 9 times, most recently in 2009
• Raucous noise - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Harsh sound - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Tantara - used 7 times, most recently in 1999
• Flamboyance - used 6 times, most recently in 2013

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.

• Sneeze sound - ACHOO, used 130 times
• Trolley sound - CLANG, used 70 times
• Sound - AUDIO, used 61 times
• Derisive sound - SNORT, used 55 times
• Sound of a sneeze - ACHOO, used 55 times
• Pie-in-the-face sound - SPLAT, used 51 times

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