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PASTEL

6 letters - 7 clues in this collection

PASTEL is a 6-letter crossword answer with 7 clues in this collection. Across those clues it has 80 usages in the xd corpus, most recently in 2026. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.

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PASTEL

PASTEL

6Letters
7Clues in collection
80Combined xd usages
2026Most recent year

Combined usages add the xd usage counts of every clue below. Frequency figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Every clue for PASTEL in this collection

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  • Soft shade - used 21 times across 14 distinct years, most recently in 2025
  • Soft hue - used 15 times across 11 distinct years, most recently in 2026
  • Soft color - used 12 times across 11 distinct years, most recently in 2023
  • Subdued color - used 9 times across 7 distinct years, most recently in 2023
  • Subdued shade - used 9 times across 9 distinct years, most recently in 2023
  • Delicate hue - used 8 times across 7 distinct years, most recently in 2019
  • Light color - used 6 times across 5 distinct years, most recently in 2020

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