The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word PATOIS which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2019.
Local dialect crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| PATOIS | 86 % | 6 |
| ARGOT | 14 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Local dialect
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- vernacular
- idiolect
- argot
- language
- lingo
- speak
- phraseology
- parlance
- jargon
- slang
- dialect
- idiom
Crossword Answer definitions
PATOIS noun- A regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard.
- Any of various French or Occitan dialects spoken in France.
- Creole French in the Caribbean (especially in Dominica, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago and Haiti).
- Jamaican Patois, a Jamaican creole language primarily based on English and African languages but also has influences from Spanish, Portuguese and Hindi.
- Jargon or cant.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
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More clues leading to the result PATOIS
- Jargon
- Vernacular
- Dialect
- Nonstandard dialect
- Regional dialect
- Argot
- Folk dialect
- Provincial speech
- Local lingo
- Gumbo, e.g.