Shade of meaning
The crossword clue "Shade of meaning" is answered by NUANCE, a 6-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1949. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
NUANCE
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NUANCE answer page.
Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1949. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for NUANCE
Every other clue in this collection answered by NUANCE, most used first.
- Subtlety - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
- Subtle distinction - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Subtle difference - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Shade - used 13 times, most recently in 2021
- Subtle aspect - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Red shade - CERISE, used 31 times
- Shade of blue - COBALT, used 29 times
- Soft shade - PASTEL, used 21 times
- Shade of red - CERISE, used 20 times
- Meaning - INTENT, used 17 times
- Prefix meaning "false" - PSEUDO, used 17 times
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