The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word USAGE which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Sun in 2007.
What a descriptive dictionary is based on crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| USAGE | 100 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: What a descriptive dictionary is based on
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Crossword Answer definitions
USAGE noun- The manner or the amount of using; use.
- Habit or accepted practice.
- The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis.
- The treatment of someone or something.
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