The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word COMMAS , but the solution may also be DASHES which is one of the most recent solution (2015 in LA Times).
Causes for pauses crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| COMMAS | 67 % | 6 |
| DASHES | 33 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Causes for pauses
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- pause
- stammer
- stop
- stops
- haw
- know
- point
- pregnant
- rhetorical
- stays
- agent
- anesthetic
Crossword Answer definitions
COMMAS noun- The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
- A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
- A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
- A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
- In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
- A brief interval.
- To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas.
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More clues leading to the result COMMAS
- Marks in a list
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- Break identifiers
- Items in many lists
- Series dividers
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- Characters in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"