Crossword clue
Entreaty crossword clue
12 words in our dictionary can answer the crossword clue "entreaty", from as short as 4 letters up to 12, grouped below by the length of your slot.
Written by Blake Boege
Answers by length
Everything below fits the clue. What separates them is length, running from 4 letters to 12, so find your row and ignore the rest.
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What this list looks like
Length 6 carries 3 answers, the largest group on this page.
At 4 letters you have PLEA and SUIT, and short answers like these turn up far more often than their share of the dictionary suggests.
The list mixes 2 synonyms with 10 examples of the thing itself.
Which one does the setter mean?
Four squares is PLEA, and it is the answer here nearly every time. SUIT is the other four-letter candidate but it belongs to a different sense, so if the crossings resist PLEA read the meanings below before committing.
How these differ
This word covers two things and the list shows both. The begging sense is PLEA, APPEAL, PRAYER, ADJURATION and SUPPLICATION, running from ordinary to ecclesiastical. PRAYER belongs here in its older sense of an earnest request to anyone, which is why a legal filing still contains a prayer for relief. The courting sense is SUIT, WOOING, COURTSHIP and COURTING, where to press one's suit is to entreat someone to marry. DEMAGOGY and DEMAGOGUERY are the appeal made to a crowd rather than a person, and carry the accusation that the appeal is dishonest.
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Where these answers come from
No puzzle was consulted to build this page. Every word above is recorded by WordNet as meaning “entreaty” or as naming a kind of it, and each one is in the 173,000-wordlist this site searches. Moby Thesaurus lists 6 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 "entreaty"?
- There is more than one. 12 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 PLEA, and it is the answer here nearly every time. SUIT is the other four-letter candidate but it belongs to a different sense, so if the crossings resist PLEA read the meanings below before committing.
- How many letters is the answer to "entreaty"?
- Anything from 4 to 12. The length with the most candidates is 6. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.
- How reliable are these answers?
- 6 of the 12 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.