Deficient in color
The crossword clue "Deficient in color" is answered by PALE, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PALE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PALE answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for PALE
Every other clue in this collection answered by PALE, most used first.
- Ashen - used 103 times, most recently in 2026
- Lacking color - used 85 times, most recently in 2026
- Wan - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
- Washed out - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
- Faint - used 26 times, most recently in 2024
- White as a sheet - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
- Drained of color - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Picket - used 21 times, most recently in 2005
- Whitish - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Blanched - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
- Far from ruddy - used 17 times, most recently in 2022
- Beyond the ___. - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Color deficient - used 16 times, most recently in 2014
- The "P" of IPA - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Colorless - used 15 times, most recently in 2009
- Opposite of flushed - used 15 times, most recently in 2013
- White as a ghost - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Blanch - used 12 times, most recently in 2007
- Hardly tanned - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Like some ale - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Not very bright - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Stake - used 11 times, most recently in 2004
- Ale variety - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Nearly colorless - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Fence picket - used 9 times, most recently in 2001
- Fence stake - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- Dim - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
- -- ale - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Become drained of color - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Enclosure - used 7 times, most recently in 1987
- Hardly ruddy - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Like Death's horse - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
- Like some ales - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Lose color - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Far from tanned - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- ___ in comparison - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Light in color - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Muted - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Not bright, as colors - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Turn white - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
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.
- Water color - AQUA, used 108 times
- Horse color - ROAN, used 89 times
- Lose color - FADE, used 85 times
- Color - TINT, used 63 times
- Neutral color - ECRU, used 49 times
- Color quality - TONE, used 45 times
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