Eat one's words
The crossword clue "Eat one's words" is answered by RECANT, a 6-letter entry. Used 14 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1953. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
RECANT
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RECANT answer page.
Used 14 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1953. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for RECANT
Every other clue in this collection answered by RECANT, most used first.
- Take back - used 35 times, most recently in 2022
- Disavow - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
- Take back, as a statement - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Take back, as testimony - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Withdraw - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Threatening words - ORELSE, used 62 times
- Ultimatum words - ORELSE, used 50 times
- Blows one's top - ERUPTS, used 34 times
- Takes as one's own - ADOPTS, used 29 times
- Threat words - ORELSE, used 27 times
- Put into words - STATED, used 26 times
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