Make a speech
The crossword clue "Make a speech" is answered by ORATE, a 5-letter entry. Used 127 times across 39 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 22 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the pilot data itself.
The answer
ORATE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ORATE answer page.
Used 127 times across 39 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 22 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ORATE
Every other clue in this pilot answered by ORATE, most used first.
- Give a speech - used 197 times, most recently in 2026
- Speechify - used 190 times, most recently in 2026
- Declaim - used 108 times, most recently in 2025
Related clues
Pilot clues 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.
- Make amends - ATONE, used 664 times
- Make into law - ENACT, used 206 times
- Make blank - ERASE, used 197 times
- Make up (for) - ATONE, used 192 times
- Make sense - ADDUP, used 137 times
- Make happy - ELATE, used 133 times
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