Portray in words
The crossword clue "Portray in words" is answered by LIMN, a 4-letter entry. Used 11 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1982. 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
LIMN
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LIMN answer page.
Used 11 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1982. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for LIMN
Every other clue in this collection answered by LIMN, most used first.
- Delineate - used 32 times, most recently in 2012
- Describe - used 31 times, most recently in 2023
- Portray - used 26 times, most recently in 2021
- Depict - used 20 times, most recently in 2019
- Draw - used 20 times, most recently in 2020
- Depict by drawing - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Outline - used 11 times, most recently in 2009
- Represent by drawing - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
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.
- Words of understanding - ISEE, used 227 times
- ___ many words - INSO, used 153 times
- Analogy words - ISTO, used 134 times
- Not __ many words - INSO, used 86 times
- Treater's words - ONME, used 85 times
- Words of approximation - ORSO, used 84 times
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