The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word LILAC which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2021.
Purple shade crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| LILAC | 39 % | 5 |
| MAUVE | 26 % | 5 |
| PUCE | 17 % | 4 |
| VIOLET | 5 % | 6 |
| AMARANTH | 3 % | 8 |
| PLUM | 2 % | 4 |
| INDIGO | 2 % | 6 |
| MAGENTA | 2 % | 7 |
| PETUNIA | 2 % | 7 |
| LAVENDER | 2 % | 8 |
| EGGPLANT | 2 % | 8 |
| GRAPE | 2 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Purple shade
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- lavender
- violet
- amethyst
- byzantine
- mauve
- byzantium
- eminence
- heather
- pink
- purplish
- purple
- cardinal
Crossword Answer definitions
LILAC noun- A large shrub of the genus Syringa, especially Syringa vulgaris, bearing white, pale-pink or purple flowers.
- A flower of the lilac shrub.
- (color) A pale purple color, the color of some lilac flowers.
- Having a pale purple colour.
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 LILAC
- Fragrant flower
- Pale purple
- Sign of spring
- Whitman memorial flower
- Purple bloomer
- Spring bloom
- Whitman's dooryard bloomer
- Purplish hue
- Violet shade
- Air-freshener scent
More clues leading to the result MAUVE
- Pale blue-purple
- Lilac relative
- Bluish purple
- Sunset color
- Pale purple
- Pale bluish purple
- Shade of purple
- Purplish shade
- Purple shade
- The ___ Decade (Gay Nineties)
More clues leading to the result PUCE
- Purplish red
- Color that means "flea" in French
- Purple hue
- Reddish brown color
- Shade of red that means "flea"
- Brownish purple
- Purple shade
- Purplish brown
- Brownish-purple
- Color akin to cranberry
More clues leading to the result VIOLET
- Ultra follower
- Meadow flower
- Color at the end of the visible spectrum
- A rainbow's end?
- Rainbow's innermost
- ROY G BIV member
- Rainbow colour
- Part of ROY G. BIV
- One end of the spectrum
- End of a rainbow?
More clues leading to the result AMARANTH
- Purple shade
- Undying flower of myth
- Imaginary, undying flower
- Imaginary eternal flower
- Ornamental plant
- Plant with long-lasting flowers.
- Love-lies-bleeding.
- Never-fading flower: Poet.
- Showy flower
- Imaginary undying flower
More clues leading to the result PLUM
- Horner's treat
- Little Jack Horner's discovery
- Enviable assignment
- Pudding ingredient
- Treat for Horner?
- Clue suspect
- Juicy job
- Horner's pie extraction
- Jack Horner's reward
- Jack Horner's find
More clues leading to the result INDIGO
- Ellington's "Mood __"
- ___ Girls
- The I of ROY G. BIV
- Spectrum component
- Prism bar?
- Ellington's "Mood ___"
- "Mood ___" (Sinatra song)
- Blue shade
- "Mood ___" (Ellington song)
- ___ Girls ("Closer to Fine" singers)
More clues leading to the result MAGENTA
- Purplish red
- Shade of red
- Hue in the T Mobile logo
- Purplish shade
- Color used in four-color processing
- Color complementing cyan, yellow, and black
- Plum relative
- Purplish hue
- Color in four-color printing
- Purple shade
More clues leading to the result PETUNIA
- Funnel-shaped garden plant
- Flower that took its name from the French word for "tobacco"
- Porky's sweetie
- Porky's girlfriend
- Cartoon pig named for a flower
- Porky Pig's girlfriend
- Fictional sow
- Porcine toon
- Porky Pig's love
- Funnel-shaped flower
More clues leading to the result LAVENDER
- Purple hue
- Lilac color
- "...___and lace"
- Sachet filler
- Massage therapy oil type
- It's good for your nerves
- Purple shade
- Nectar source
- Fragrant plant.
- Fragrant shrub.
More clues leading to the result EGGPLANT
- *Moussaka ingredient
- See 34 Across
- Black Beauty, e.g.
- Trattoria order
- Purple shade
- Deep purple
- Herb allied to potato.
- Popular upholstery color.
- Member of potato family.
- Vegetable.