Assume to be true

The answer

POSIT

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the POSIT answer page.

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for POSIT

Every other clue in this collection answered by POSIT, most used first.

• Suggest - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Put forward - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Assume as fact - used 29 times, most recently in 2017
• Hypothesize - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Put forth - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Postulate - used 17 times, most recently in 2008
• Assume as a fact - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Assume - used 14 times, most recently in 2013
• Take as a given - used 11 times, most recently in 2011
• Theorize - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Put forth, as a theory - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• Assume for argument's sake - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• Presume - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
• Propose - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Set firmly - used 7 times, most recently in 1998
• Assert - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
• Presuppose - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Set forth - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• Show to be true - PROVE, used 57 times
• True-blue - LOYAL, used 56 times
• "___ on a true story" - BASED, used 52 times
• "To ___ own self be true" - THINE, used 38 times
• Assume the role of - ACTAS, used 28 times
• True - LOYAL, used 26 times

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