How many letters is the answer to "anger"?

Anything from 3 to 11. The length with the most candidates is 7. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.

How reliable are these answers?

25 of the 34 appear in two independently compiled reference works, WordNet and Moby Thesaurus, rather than one. All of them are in the 173,000-word dictionary this site searches. None of them comes from any published puzzle.

Crossword clue

Anger crossword clue

34 words in our dictionary can answer the crossword clue "anger", from as short as 3 letters up to 11, grouped below by the length of your slot.

Written by Blake Boege

Answers by length

9 different lengths answer this one. Yours is whichever row matches the squares in the grid.

Letters	Answers
3	ireconfirmed by two sources irkconfirmed by two sources
4	furyconfirmed by two sources gallconfirmed by two sources miff rageconfirmed by two sources
5	wrathconfirmed by two sources chafeconfirmed by two sources piqueconfirmed by two sources steam
6	cholerconfirmed by two sources bridleconfirmed by two sources danderconfirmed by two sources enrageconfirmed by two sources maddenconfirmed by two sources offendconfirmed by two sources
7	combust hackles incenseconfirmed by two sources madness offence offense outrageconfirmed by two sources umbrageconfirmed by two sources
8	vexationconfirmed by two sources
9	angrinessconfirmed by two sources aggravateconfirmed by two sources annoyanceconfirmed by two sources huffiness infuriateconfirmed by two sources
10	exacerbate exasperateconfirmed by two sources
11	indignationconfirmed by two sources infuriationconfirmed by two sources

What this list looks like

8 of these are 7 letters, which is more than any other length manages.

The short ones are worth learning: IRE, IRK at 3 letters, which is where a setter goes when the grid is tight.

4 of these mean the same as the clue and 30 are kinds of it, which is a distinction worth holding on to when two look equally good.

Which one does the setter mean?

Three squares is IRE, which is the standard crossword noun for anger and turns up constantly. IRK also fits three but is a verb meaning to annoy, so the clue's part of speech should tell you which is wanted.

How these differ

The nouns and verbs are mixed here and worth separating. Nouns for the feeling: IRE, RAGE, FURY, WRATH and CHOLER, roughly in order of temperature, with CHOLER surviving from the medieval humours. DANDER and HACKLES appear only in phrases, the hackles being the neck feathers a bird raises. Nouns for the offence taken: UMBRAGE, PIQUE and OFFENCE, all about wounded dignity rather than heat. Verbs for causing it: ENRAGE, INCENSE, MADDEN and INFURIATE. GALL is both, and means the bitterness as well as the act of causing it.

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Where these answers come from

This is a dictionary answering a question, not a copied answer key. Every word above is recorded by WordNet as meaning “anger” or as naming a kind of it, and each one is in the 173,000-wordlist this site searches. Moby Thesaurus lists 25 of them too. We hold no newspaper's answer key and reproduce no published crossword.

Common questions

What is the answer to the crossword clue "anger"?: There is more than one. 34 words in our dictionary fit this clue, and which one a puzzle wants depends on the length of the slot and the crossing letters. Three squares is IRE, which is the standard crossword noun for anger and turns up constantly. IRK also fits three but is a verb meaning to annoy, so the clue's part of speech should tell you which is wanted.
How many letters is the answer to "anger"?: Anything from 3 to 11. The length with the most candidates is 7. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.
How reliable are these answers?: 25 of the 34 appear in two independently compiled reference works, WordNet and Moby Thesaurus, rather than one. All of them are in the 173,000-word dictionary this site searches. None of them comes from any published puzzle.