Speak with a gravelly voice

The answer

RASP

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RASP answer page.

Used 11 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2012. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for RASP

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

• Grate - used 158 times, most recently in 2026
• Coarse file - used 128 times, most recently in 2026
• Speak hoarsely - used 69 times, most recently in 2026
• File - used 58 times, most recently in 2025
• Grating sound - used 55 times, most recently in 2025
• Hoarse voice - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Rough file - used 35 times, most recently in 2024
• Harsh sound - used 30 times, most recently in 2022
• Hoarse sound - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
• Scratchy voice - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Gravelly voice - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Farrier's tool - used 23 times, most recently in 2022
• Irritate - used 23 times, most recently in 2006
• Abrade - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Scrape - used 21 times, most recently in 2020
• Woodworking tool - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Abrasive tool - used 17 times, most recently in 2022
• Blacksmith's tool - used 17 times, most recently in 2016
• Sound hoarse - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Carpentry tool - used 14 times, most recently in 2018
• Scraping tool - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Filing tool - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Grate upon - used 12 times, most recently in 2010
• Scratchy sound - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Wood file - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Rough voice - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Speak roughly - used 10 times, most recently in 2013
• Rub roughly - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Sound gravelly - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• Talk hoarsely - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Vocal quality - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• A file that can't be opened - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
• Carpenter's file - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Carpenter's tool - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Carpentry file - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Croak - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• File type - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Abrasive sound - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Grating voice - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Horseshoer's tool - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Sore throat sound - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Speak harshly - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Talk like Popeye - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Wood-shaping tool - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Woodworking file - 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.

• Choir voice - ALTO, used 310 times
• Prefix with dynamic - AERO, used 152 times
• Share a border with - ABUT, used 152 times
• Done with - OVER, used 145 times
• With: Fr. - AVEC, used 132 times
• With skill - ABLY, used 127 times

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