Figure of speech?
The crossword clue "Figure of speech?" is answered by ORATOR, a 6-letter entry. Used 20 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ORATOR
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ORATOR answer page.
Used 20 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. 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 ORATOR
Every other clue in this collection answered by ORATOR, most used first.
- Public speaker - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Speaker - used 26 times, most recently in 2024
- Loud speaker - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Skilled speaker - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Stump figure - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Speechifier - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Eloquent speaker - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Clay, for one - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
- Speech maker - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Spellbinder. - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- Demosthenes, e.g. - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
- Demosthenes, for one - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
- Rhetorician - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Soapbox speaker - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Cicero, for one - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Daniel Webster, for one - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
- Gifted speaker - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Man of many words - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Speaker on a soapbox - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- One on the stump - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Skilled public speaker - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Speechmaker - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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.
- Figures of speech - IDIOMS, used 32 times
- Delphi figure - ORACLE, used 30 times
- Figures of speech - TROPES, used 28 times
- Gives a speech - ORATES, used 26 times
- Gave a speech - ORATED, used 25 times
- Angry speech - TIRADE, used 19 times
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