Kind of bud

The answer

TASTE

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

Used 14 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1973. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for TASTE

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

• Sample - used 118 times, most recently in 2025
• Discernment - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
• Refinement - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
• Flavor - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
• Discrimination - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Take a bite of - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Critical asset - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• One of the five senses - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• One of the senses - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• Try - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Sense of style - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• There's no accounting for it - used 22 times, most recently in 2016
• Personal preference - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
• Preference - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Savor - used 17 times, most recently in 2014
• Decorator's asset - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
• Designer's asset - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Take a sip of - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Small sample - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Spoonful, say - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Sip - used 14 times, most recently in 2015
• Experience. - used 13 times, most recently in 1997
• Have a trying experience? - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Liking - used 12 times, most recently in 2011
• Little bite - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Common sense? - used 11 times, most recently in 2013
• Have a bite of - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• It may be acquired - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Sample, as food - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• A sense - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
• Fashion sense - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Sample of food - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Small bite - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Aesthetic judgment - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Eat a sample of - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Have a sample of - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Take a nibble of - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• "There's no accounting for ___" - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Try a tidbit - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
• "A ___ of Honey" - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Aesthetic sense - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Food sample - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Have a sip of - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Personal liking - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Small sample of food - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• "Try this!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Artistic judgment - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Sampling - used 6 times, most recently in 2013

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.

• Kind of acid - AMINO, used 116 times
• Kind of committee - ADHOC, used 102 times
• Kind of wave - TIDAL, used 74 times
• Kind of energy - SOLAR, used 67 times
• Kind of boom - SONIC, used 65 times
• Kind of drum - SNARE, used 64 times

Search the clue collection

Search by clue words or by answer, or type a pattern with the letters you have and a blank for each square you do not know. The characters _ ? . and - all work as blanks.