Crossword clue
Corpuscle crossword clue
11 words in our dictionary can answer the crossword clue "corpuscle", from as short as 4 letters up to 11, grouped below by the length of your slot.
Written by Blake Boege
Answers by length
Read the row that matches your slot. ATOM is the shortest answer here and ERYTHROCYTE the longest.
| Letters | Answers |
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| 11 |
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What this list looks like
Most of them are 8 letters long: 4 of the 11 sit in that row.
Setters reach for 4-letter answers constantly, and here that means ATOM, MOTE.
The list mixes 5 synonyms with 6 examples of the thing itself.
Which one does the setter mean?
Four squares is ATOM or MOTE, and MOTE is the more likely if the clue is worded as a tiny particle. If the clue leans medical, the eleven-letter ERYTHROCYTE is the red blood cell and the nine-letter LEUKOCYTE the white.
How these differ
Corpuscle means a small body and English uses it for two unrelated things. In physiology it is a blood cell: ERYTHROCYTE carries oxygen, LEUKOCYTE fights infection. In older physics it was any minute particle, which is the sense that gives ATOM, MOTE, SPECK, GRAIN, MOLECULE and PARTICLE. Newton's theory of light was corpuscular. MOTE is the poetic one, the speck visible in a sunbeam, and FLYSPECK is the same idea at its least poetic.
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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 “corpuscle” or as naming a kind of it, and each one is in the 173,000-wordlist this site searches. We hold no newspaper's answer key and reproduce no published crossword.
Common questions
- What is the answer to the crossword clue "corpuscle"?
- There is more than one. 11 words in our dictionary fit this clue, and which one a puzzle wants depends on the length of the slot and the crossing letters. Four squares is ATOM or MOTE, and MOTE is the more likely if the clue is worded as a tiny particle. If the clue leans medical, the eleven-letter ERYTHROCYTE is the red blood cell and the nine-letter LEUKOCYTE the white.
- How many letters is the answer to "corpuscle"?
- Anything from 4 to 11. The length with the most candidates is 8. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.