Propose
The crossword clue "Propose" is answered by POSIT, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024. 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
POSIT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the POSIT answer page.
Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024. It appears in 3 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.
- PUTFORTH (2 uses in xd)
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
- Set firmly - used 7 times, most recently in 1998
- Assert - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
- Assume to be true - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- 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.
- Prepare to propose - KNEEL, used 90 times
- Prepared to propose - KNELT, used 70 times
- Propose - OFFER, used 21 times
- Prepare to propose, perhaps - KNEEL, used 12 times
- Got down to propose - KNELT, used 11 times
- Posed to propose - KNELT, used 9 times
Search the clue collection
Search by clue words or by answer, or type a pattern with the letters you have and a blank for each square you do not know. The characters _ ? . and - all work as blanks.