Figure of speech
The crossword clue "Figure of speech" is answered by SIMILE, a 6-letter entry. Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2007; first recorded in 1956. 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
SIMILE
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SIMILE answer page.
Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2007; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for SIMILE
Every other clue in this collection answered by SIMILE, most used first.
- "Hard as nails," for one - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Literary comparison - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
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.
- Figures of speech - IDIOMS, used 32 times
- Delphi figure - ORACLE, used 30 times
- Figures of speech - TROPES, used 28 times
- Gives a speech - ORATES, used 26 times
- Gave a speech - ORATED, used 25 times
- Figure of speech? - ORATOR, used 20 times
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