Set firmly
The crossword clue "Set firmly" is answered by POSIT, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 1998; first recorded in 1947. It appears in 2 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 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 1998; first recorded in 1947. It appears in 2 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.
- PLANTED (1 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
- Propose - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- 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.
- Set straight - ALIGN, used 96 times
- Musical set in Argentina - EVITA, used 91 times
- All set - READY, used 66 times
- Plant firmly - EMBED, used 58 times
- Set of principles - ETHIC, used 45 times
- Set free - UNTIE, used 44 times
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