Crossword clue
Therefore crossword clue
4 words in our dictionary can answer the crossword clue "therefore", from 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.
| Letters | Answers |
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| 12 |
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What this list looks like
Setters reach for 4-letter answers constantly, and here that means THUS.
Which one does the setter mean?
Four squares is THUS. Be aware of what this list does not contain: the classic four-letter answer to this clue is ERGO, and our dictionary has it but WordNet does not record it as a synonym of therefore, so it is honestly absent below rather than quietly added. If THUS does not fit, try ERGO anyway.
How these differ
THUS and HENCE both introduce a consequence, with HENCE slightly more formal and slightly more common in argument. THENCE is not really interchangeable: it means from there rather than for that reason, and modern usage often gets this wrong. CONSEQUENTLY is the plainest of the four and the only one nobody would call literary.
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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 “therefore” or as naming a kind of it, and each one is in the 173,000-wordlist this site searches. Moby Thesaurus lists 4 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 "therefore"?
- 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 THUS. Be aware of what this list does not contain: the classic four-letter answer to this clue is ERGO, and our dictionary has it but WordNet does not record it as a synonym of therefore, so it is honestly absent below rather than quietly added. If THUS does not fit, try ERGO anyway.
- How many letters is the answer to "therefore"?
- Anything from 4 to 12. The length with the most candidates is 4. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.
- How reliable are these answers?
- 4 of the 4 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.