"Purple" writing
The crossword clue ""Purple" writing" is answered by PROSE, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PROSE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PROSE answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for PROSE
Every other clue in this collection answered by PROSE, most used first.
- Plain writing - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
- Ordinary writing - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Ordinary language - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
- Poetry's counterpart - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Nonpoetic writing - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Regular writing - used 13 times, most recently in 2019
- Everyday writing - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Most writing - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- Everyday language - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Plain talk - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Narrative writing - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Plain speaking - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- The written word - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- It's unmetered - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
- Novel makeup - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
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.
- Pale purple - LILAC, used 89 times
- Purple flower - LILAC, used 55 times
- Purple shade - LILAC, used 47 times
- Purple shade - MAUVE, used 47 times
- Writing assignment - ESSAY, used 42 times
- Light purple - LILAC, used 33 times
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