Say "somethin'"

The answer

ELIDE

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

Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ELIDE

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

• Slur over - used 82 times, most recently in 2020
• Skip over - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
• Omit in pronunciation - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
• Pass over - used 34 times, most recently in 2017
• Leave out - used 31 times, most recently in 2012
• Omit - used 29 times, most recently in 2020
• Suppress - used 20 times, most recently in 1993
• Ignore. - used 15 times, most recently in 2003
• Ignore in pronunciation - used 13 times, most recently in 2013
• Omit phonetically - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Skip a syllable - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Leave out in pronunciation - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Omit in speech - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Skip a sound - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Drop in pronunciation - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Skip, as a syllable - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Abridge - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
• Leave out, in speech - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Say "y'all," say - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Skip - used 8 times, most recently in 2003
• Skip over in speech - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Slur over a syllable - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• Strike out - used 8 times, most recently in 1986
• Apocopate. - used 7 times, most recently in 1993
• Say "nothin'," say - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Skip over, as a vowel - used 7 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• Say - UTTER, used 113 times
• "That is to say ..." - IMEAN, used 113 times
• "___ say more?" - NEEDI, used 92 times
• "Say cheese!" - SMILE, used 53 times
• Say out loud - UTTER, used 51 times
• Say something - SPEAK, used 47 times

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