Purplish shade
The crossword clue "Purplish shade" is answered by MAUVE, a 5-letter entry. Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 8 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 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 8 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
- Pale purple - used 18 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
- 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.
- Shade of green - OLIVE, used 51 times
- Green shade - OLIVE, used 47 times
- Purple shade - LILAC, used 47 times
- Hosiery shade - TAUPE, used 46 times
- Brown shade - UMBER, used 32 times
- Brown shade - SEPIA, used 31 times
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