Wake

The answer

ROUSE

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ROUSE answer page.

Used 14 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1957. It appears in 5 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.

• AROUSE (4 uses in xd)
• AFTERMATH (2 uses in xd)
• BLEAKHOUSEPARTY (1 uses in xd)
• LAME (1 uses in xd)
• VIGIL (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for ROUSE

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

• Awaken - used 95 times, most recently in 2026
• Wake up - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Stir up - used 42 times, most recently in 2025
• Waken - used 36 times, most recently in 2023
• Shake awake - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Stir - used 25 times, most recently in 2016
• Stir from slumber - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
• Excite - used 11 times, most recently in 2007
• Fire up - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
• Galvanize - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Incite - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• Get out of bed - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Get up - 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.

• "Wake Up Little ___" - SUSIE, used 32 times
• Wake-up call - ALARM, used 20 times
• Wake Island, e.g. - ATOLL, used 16 times
• Starts to wake - STIRS, used 13 times
• "Wake of the Ferry" painter - SLOAN, used 12 times
• Wake up - ARISE, used 12 times

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