The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ARSIS which also is the latest solution we found used in USA Today in 2014.
Musical upbeat crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ARSIS | 80 % | 5 |
| ANACRUSIS | 20 % | 9 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Musical upbeat
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- arsis
- lilt
- jig
- pickup
- bebop
- rag
- anacrusis
- positive
- three
- canorous
- debussy
- demo
Crossword Answer definitions
ARSIS noun- The stronger part of a musical measure: the part containing the beat.
- The stronger part of a metrical foot: the part containing the long (heavy) syllable in quantitative meter, or the stressed syllable in a qualitative meter.
- The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar, opposed to the thesis.
- The elevation of the voice to a higher pitch in speaking.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
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More clues leading to the result ARSIS
- Upbeat, to Ozawa
- Upbeat, in music
- Elevation of the voice.
- Emphasized syllable in prose.
- Musical opposite of thesis.
- Accented syllable.
- Unaccented part of a poetic foot.
- Upbeat, in music.
- Accented part of a foot of verse.
- Upbeat.