White crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “White” are LIGHT, CLEAN or EMPTY, with 5 letters. Below are 48 answers from 3 to 12 letters, best match first in each length, then what each top answer means and how to tell them apart.

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The best answers, explained

HOT 3 letters · adjective

used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning “hot stove”

GOOD 4 letters · adjective

having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified “good news from the hospital”

LIGHT 5 letters · adjective

of comparatively little physical weight or density “a light load”

DILUTE 6 letters · verb

lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture

COVERED 7 letters · adjective

overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form “women with covered faces”

BLANCHED 8 letters · adjective

anemic looking from illness or emotion “the invalid's blanched cheeks”

COLORLESS 9 letters · adjective

lacking in variety and interest “a colorless and unimaginative person”

SEGREGATED 10 letters · adjective

separated or isolated from others or a main group “a segregated school system”

CAULIFLOWER 11 letters · noun

a plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, GOOD, PURE and PALE all fit. The second letter tells them all apart: O → GOOD · U → PURE · A → PALE. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, LIGHT, CLEAN, EMPTY, BLANK, SNOWY and TWEED all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: L → LIGHT · C → CLEAN · E → EMPTY · B → BLANK · S → SNOWY · T → TWEED. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 6 squares, DILUTE, SILVER, BLONDE, BLEACH, BENNET and PEARLY all fit. The third letter settles most of it: L → DILUTE, SILVER · O → BLONDE · E → BLEACH · N → BENNET · A → PEARLY. Fill in that crossing answer first.

Other forms of this clue

Clues often use another form of the word, and the answer then takes the same form: “whited” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “white” means

• adjective: being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light (“as white as fresh snow”)
• adjective: of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration (“voting patterns within the white population”)
• adjective: free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied (“in shining white armor”)
• adjective: marked by the presence of snow (“a white Christmas”)

A clue usually points at one of these senses, so the right answer is the one that matches the sense the puzzle means: check it against the crossing words.

About these answers

We match the clue against our own thesaurus and dictionary (Open English WordNet): words that mean the same as WHITE, and words whose definition is WHITE. We don't copy answers from newspaper puzzles, so a clue that leans on trivia or wordplay may need the crossing letters instead.