Slight coloration
The crossword clue "Slight coloration" is answered by TINGE, a 5-letter entry. Used 19 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1961. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TINGE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TINGE answer page.
Used 19 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1961. It appears in 11 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 TINGE
Every other clue in this collection answered by TINGE, most used first.
- Hint of color - used 104 times, most recently in 2026
- Trace of color - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Bit of color - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Trace - used 28 times, most recently in 2019
- Hint - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Slight coloring - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
- Color slightly - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Touch of color - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Shade - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Slight trace - used 14 times, most recently in 2019
- Slight color - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Hint of hue - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
- Faint trace - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Smattering - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Hue - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Subtle coloration - used 6 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.
- Slight error - LAPSE, used 14 times
- Slight remnant - TRACE, used 11 times
- Slight amount - TRACE, used 9 times
- Slight odor - WHIFF, used 9 times
- Slight burn - SINGE, used 6 times
- Slight push - NUDGE, used 6 times
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