Pale purple
The crossword clue "Pale purple" is answered by MAUVE, a 5-letter entry. Used 18 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
MAUVE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MAUVE answer page.
Used 18 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for MAUVE
Every other clue in this collection answered by MAUVE, most used first.
- Purple shade - used 47 times, most recently in 2025
- Shade of purple - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Bluish purple - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
- Purple hue - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Purplish shade - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Delicate purple - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
- Purplish hue - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Color. - used 7 times, most recently in 1969
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.
- Pale - ASHEN, used 186 times
- Pale purple - LILAC, used 89 times
- Very pale - ASHEN, used 69 times
- Purple flower - LILAC, used 55 times
- Purple shade - LILAC, used 47 times
- Light purple - LILAC, used 33 times
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