Make speeches
The crossword clue "Make speeches" is answered by ORATE, a 5-letter entry. Used 32 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1948. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
ORATE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ORATE answer page.
Used 32 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1948. It appears in 6 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 collection answered by ORATE, most used first.
- Give a speech - used 197 times, most recently in 2026
- Speechify - used 190 times, most recently in 2026
- Make a speech - used 127 times, most recently in 2026
- Declaim - used 108 times, most recently in 2025
- Give an address - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
- Hold forth - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
- Deliver a speech - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
- Pontificate - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
- Emulate Cicero - used 51 times, most recently in 2015
- Speak pompously - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Emulate Demosthenes - used 39 times, most recently in 2021
- Use a soapbox - used 33 times, most recently in 2019
- Wax eloquent - used 29 times, most recently in 2019
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.
- 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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