Answer to "Alleged" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word SUPPOSED , but the solution may also be SOCALLED which is one of the most recent solution (2021 in New York Times).

Alleged crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
SUPPOSED	17 %	8
PRETENDED	17 %	9
SOCALLED	17 %	8
CLAIMED	17 %	7
ASSERTED	17 %	8
STATED	17 %	6

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Alleged

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• supposed
• declared
• so-called
• questionable
• purportedly
• purported
• assumption
• self-styled
• possible
• self-proclaimed
• supposedly
• presumptive

Crossword Answer definitions

SUPPOSED verb

1. To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
2. To theorize or hypothesize.
3. To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
4. To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature.
5. To put by fraud in the place of another.

SUPPOSED adjective

1. Presumed to be true, but without proof
2. (with infinitive) Generally considered or expected.
3. (with infinitive) Having an obligation.
4. (with infinitive) Intended.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result SUPPOSED

• Assumed to be true
• Assumed
• Imagined.
• Putative
• Alleged

More clues leading to the result PRETENDED

• Not sincere
• Put on
• Simulated.
• Alleged.
• Let on
• Feigned
• Made believe

More clues leading to the result SOCALLED

• Incorrectly-named
• In name only
• Dubiously termed
• Of questionable repute, as an expert
• Designated, perhaps incorrectly
• Of questionable repute
• Designated thus
• Self-styled
• Supposed
• Popularly termed

More clues leading to the result CLAIMED

• Spoken for
• Formerly in the lost-and-found
• Retrieved, as baggage
• Asserted
• Demanded
• Had rights to
• Retrieved at an airport carousel
• Alleged
• Put forth
• Maintained.

More clues leading to the result ASSERTED

• Expressed positively
• Said positively
• Put forward
• Put forth
• Maintained.
• Maintained by words.
• Stated forcefully.
• Claimed.
• Stated
• Defended

More clues leading to the result STATED

• Put into words
• Declared
• Transmitted vocally
• Explicit
• Explicit, say
• Declared as fact
• Declared specifically
• Proclaimed
• Said
• Uttered