Derive by reasoning
The crossword clue "Derive by reasoning" is answered by INFER, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1983. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
INFER
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the INFER answer page.
Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1983. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for INFER
Every other clue in this collection answered by INFER, most used first.
- Deduce - used 109 times, most recently in 2026
- Surmise - used 52 times, most recently in 2025
- Conclude - used 27 times, most recently in 2024
- Draw a conclusion - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Gather - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Read between the lines - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Deduce logically - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Construe - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- Derive logically - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Draw conclusions - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
- Figure out - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
- Derive - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Extrapolate - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Reason out - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
- Conclude by reasoning - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Conclude from evidence - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Get by logic - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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.
- Sound reasoning - LOGIC, used 20 times
- Reasoning - LOGIC, used 14 times
- Valid reasoning - LOGIC, used 9 times
- Elicit by reasoning - EDUCE, used 7 times
- Good reasoning - LOGIC, used 6 times
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