Crossword clue
Fencing sword crossword clue
4 words in our dictionary can answer the crossword clue "fencing sword", from as short as 4 letters up to 5, 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 5, so find your row and ignore the rest.
| Letters | Answers |
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| 4 |
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| 5 |
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What this list looks like
Setters reach for 4-letter answers constantly, and here that means EPEE, FOIL.
This clue asks for an instance rather than a synonym, so all 4 below are kinds of the thing.
Which one does the setter mean?
Four squares is EPEE, and it is not close. EPEE is the crossword setter's favourite fencing word because those four letters are three vowels and a P, which is enormously useful when filling a grid. If the four squares will not take EPEE, FOIL is the other one.
How these differ
These are the three modern fencing weapons plus a spelling variant. FOIL is the lightest, with a flexible blade and a small guard, scoring only with the point on the torso. EPEE is heavier, scores with the point anywhere on the body, and is the closest of the three to an actual duel. SABER, or SABRE outside America, has a curved blade and scores with the edge as well as the point. If your grid wants five letters, the spelling you need depends on whether the puzzle is American or British.
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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 “fencing sword” 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 "fencing sword"?
- There is more than one. 4 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 EPEE, and it is not close. EPEE is the crossword setter's favourite fencing word because those four letters are three vowels and a P, which is enormously useful when filling a grid. If the four squares will not take EPEE, FOIL is the other one.
- How many letters is the answer to "fencing sword"?
- Anything from 4 to 5. The length with the most candidates is 4. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.