Scorch
The crossword clue "Scorch" is answered by BURN, a 4-letter entry. Used 20 times across 19 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1963. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
BURN
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BURN answer page.
Used 20 times across 19 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1963. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for BURN
Every other clue in this collection answered by BURN, most used first.
- Overcook - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Incinerate - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Sunbathing risk - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Combust - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Go up in smoke - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Insult - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Really overcook - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Swindle, slangily - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
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.
- Scorch - SEAR, used 217 times
- Scorch - CHAR, used 198 times
- Scorch the surface of - SEAR, used 11 times
- Scorch on a grill - SEAR, used 6 times
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