Brown shade
The crossword clue "Brown shade" is answered by TAUPE, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TAUPE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TAUPE answer page.
Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 3 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 TAUPE
Every other clue in this collection answered by TAUPE, most used first.
- Brownish gray - used 144 times, most recently in 2026
- Hosiery shade - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
- Grayish brown - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Neutral shade - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Gray-brown - used 11 times, most recently in 2017
- Color. - used 9 times, most recently in 1970
- Hosiery hue - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Stocking shade - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Brownish-gray shade - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Hose shade - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Brownish-gray color - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Gray shade - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Mousy color - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
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.
- Brown ermine - STOAT, used 109 times
- Shade of green - OLIVE, used 51 times
- Green shade - OLIVE, used 47 times
- Light brown - BEIGE, used 47 times
- Purple shade - LILAC, used 47 times
- Purple shade - MAUVE, used 47 times
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