The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 12 letter word ONOMATOPOEIA which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2023.
Word sounded out by the ends of 20-, 35- and 40-Across crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ONOMATOPOEIA | 100 % | 12 |
Why may ONOMATOPOEIA be the right solution?
The last few letters of "twenty," "thirty-five," and "forty-across" sound out the word "onomatopoeia."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Word sounded out by the ends of 20-, 35- and 40-Across
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- make
- advocate
- drum
- ton
- rule
- tie
- traverse
- mak
- 100
- sound
- clock
- colon
Crossword Answer definitions
ONOMATOPOEIA noun- The property of a word of sounding like what it represents.
- A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle" or "hiss".
- The use of language whose sound imitates that which it names.
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More clues leading to the result ONOMATOPOEIA
- Concept central to 3 Down, 10 Down, 37 Down, and 41 Down
- ... using ___: "Mary had a wee lamb -- baa! / Its fleece was snowy -- whoosh!"
- "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," literarily
- Ding-a-ling or ding-dong
- Formation of words from natural sounds.
- "To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells . . . "
- Formation of words such as hiss or buzz
- "Cuckoo" or "whippoorwill," e.g.
- PING-PONG
- Formation of words like "buzz" or "hiss"