The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word NOUNS which also is the latest solution we found used in USA Today in 2010.
Parts of speech crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| NOUNS | 73 % | 5 |
| VERBS | 18 % | 5 |
| SNIPPETS | 5 % | 8 |
| ADVERBS | 5 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Parts of speech
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- linguistically
- grammatical
- principal parts
- sentence structure
- vocabularies
- syntactics
- terminologies
Crossword Answer definitions
NOUNS noun- (grammar, narrow sense) A word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
- (grammar, now rare, broad sense) Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun.
- To convert a word to a noun.
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 NOUNS
- They're sometimes proper
- Animal, vegetable and mineral, e.g.
- Yesterday, today, and tomorrow
- Most sentence subjects
- Words of substance
- "Mad Libs" choices
- English subjects
- Pluralizable words
- Bacon, lettuce, and tomato, e.g.
- Bell, book, and candle, e.g.
More clues leading to the result VERBS
- Supply and demand, e.g.
- Words of action
- Lock, stock, and barrel, e.g.
- Stop, look, and listen, e.g.
- Cut and paste, e.g.
- "Rock" and "roll," for two
- Shake, rattle, and roll
- Eat and run, e.g.
- Stop and go, say
- Stop, look, and listen
More clues leading to the result SNIPPETS
- Small scraps
- Fragments
- Parts of speech?
- Small pieces.
- Small cuttings.
- Brief excerpts, e.g.
- Tiny excerpts
- Small pieces