Made a speech
The crossword clue "Made a speech" is answered by ORATED, a 6-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1971. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ORATED
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ORATED answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1971. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ORATED
Every other clue in this collection answered by ORATED, most used first.
- Gave a speech - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Held forth - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Made speeches - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Speechified - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Declaimed - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Waxed eloquent - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Addressed a crowd - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- Mounted the soapbox - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
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.
- Made amends - ATONED, used 81 times
- Made level - EVENED, used 60 times
- Made over - REDONE, used 47 times
- Made up (for) - ATONED, used 38 times
- Figures of speech - IDIOMS, used 32 times
- Made blank - ERASED, used 31 times
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