Purple shade
The crossword clue "Purple shade" is answered by PUCE, a 4-letter entry. Used 15 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PUCE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PUCE answer page.
Used 15 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 7 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 PUCE
Every other clue in this collection answered by PUCE, most used first.
- Brownish purple - used 88 times, most recently in 2026
- Dark purple - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Purplish brown - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Dark red - used 12 times, most recently in 2010
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
- Neutral shade - ECRU, used 78 times
- Purple berry - ACAI, used 54 times
- Shade of blue - TEAL, used 54 times
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