Metallic-sounding
The crossword clue "Metallic-sounding" is answered by TINNY, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TINNY
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TINNY answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TINNY
Every other clue in this collection answered by TINNY, most used first.
- Thin in tone - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Cheap-sounding - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Lacking in resonance - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Lacking resonance - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Like cheap speakers - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Twangy-sounding - NASAL, used 33 times
- Metallic mixture - ALLOY, used 31 times
- Stuffy-sounding - NASAL, used 22 times
- Metallic sound - CLANK, used 20 times
- Congested-sounding - NASAL, used 19 times
- Sounding congested - NASAL, used 17 times
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