Manner of speaking

The answer

TONE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TONE answer page.

Used 27 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• IDIOM (18 uses in xd)
• INA (16 uses in xd)
• PARLANCE (7 uses in xd)
• LISP (2 uses in xd)
• ACCENT (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for TONE

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

• Muscle quality - used 139 times, most recently in 2026
• Vocal quality - used 91 times, most recently in 2026
• Sound quality - used 83 times, most recently in 2026
• Voice quality - used 72 times, most recently in 2026
• Color quality - used 45 times, most recently in 2024
• Musical sound - used 43 times, most recently in 2025
• Pitch - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Vocal inflection - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Muscular fitness - used 28 times, most recently in 2018
• Inflection - used 24 times, most recently in 2022
• Dial ___ - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• Shade - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• Voicemail signal - used 22 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.

• Manner of walking - GAIT, used 48 times
• Manner - MIEN, used 34 times
• Manner - MODE, used 28 times
• Roughly speaking - ORSO, used 24 times

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