Wish earnestly
The crossword clue "Wish earnestly" is answered by HOPE, a 4-letter entry. Used 20 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
HOPE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HOPE answer page.
Used 20 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for HOPE
Every other clue in this collection answered by HOPE, most used first.
- Aspiration - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
- Optimistic feeling - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Be optimistic - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Clinton's birthplace - used 22 times, most recently in 2013
- Actress Lange - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
- Cross one's fingers - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- It springs eternal - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Optimism - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Rhode Island's motto - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
- Word before and after "against" - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Optimistic emotion - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Expectation - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- "__ springs eternal" - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Wish - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Aspire - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Crosby's "Road" partner - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Faith, __ and charity - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Famous diamond - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Feeling of optimism - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Great expectation - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Optimists have it - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- Desire - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Optimist's feeling - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Diamond name - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
- Expectancy - used 6 times, most recently in 2007
- Great expectations - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Have aspirations - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Optimistic wish - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Show optimism - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- "The Audacity of --" - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
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.
- "You wish!" - ASIF, used 73 times
- "When You Wish ___ a Star" - UPON, used 43 times
- "Wish you __ here" - WERE, used 39 times
- "Don't you wish!" - ASIF, used 20 times
- Asked earnestly - PLED, used 19 times
- Appealed earnestly - PLED, used 18 times
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