Detect an aroma
The crossword clue "Detect an aroma" is answered by SMELL, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2016. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SMELL
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SMELL answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2016. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for SMELL
Every other clue in this collection answered by SMELL, most used first.
- Odor - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Aroma - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Common sense - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Get a whiff of - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- One of the senses - used 15 times, most recently in 2021
- Get wind of - used 12 times, most recently in 2007
- Scent - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Fragrance. - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Use one's nose - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Detect, in a way - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- What the nose knows - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Bloodhound's clue - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Catch a whiff of - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Sniff - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Whiff - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- "I ___ a rat!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Need a bath badly - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
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.
- Aroma - SCENT, used 71 times
- Detect - SENSE, used 23 times
- Add aroma to - CENSE, used 7 times
- Floats, as an aroma - WAFTS, used 6 times
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