Purple shade
The crossword clue "Purple shade" is answered by PLUM, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2016. 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
PLUM
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PLUM answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2016. It appears in 4 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.
- AMARANTH (4 uses in xd)
Other clues for PLUM
Every other clue in this collection answered by PLUM, most used first.
- Purple fruit - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Jack Horner's prize - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
- Deep purple - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- "Clue" professor - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
- Prune, before drying - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Jack Horner's find - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
- Pudding fruit - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Choice - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Horner's find - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
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.
- Shade trees - ELMS, used 266 times
- Shade - TINT, used 102 times
- Shade of green - NILE, used 90 times
- Brownish purple - PUCE, used 88 times
- Neutral shade - ECRU, used 78 times
- Purple berry - ACAI, used 54 times
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