Speak
The crossword clue "Speak" is answered by ORATE, a 5-letter entry. Used 23 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1967. It appears in 8 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 23 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1967. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
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
- Harangue. - used 37 times, most recently in 2002
- Use a soapbox - used 33 times, most recently in 2019
- Make speeches - used 32 times, most recently in 2024
- Wax eloquent - used 29 times, most recently in 2019
- Mount the soapbox - used 26 times, most recently in 2018
- Sound off - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
- Speak formally - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Deliver an address - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Provide an address - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Preach - used 23 times, most recently in 2023
- Speak at length - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Take to the soapbox - used 22 times, most recently in 2020
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.
- Speak - UTTER, used 80 times
- Speak one's mind - OPINE, used 54 times
- Speak off the cuff - ADLIB, used 38 times
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