The clue "detect" last appeared in the Wall Street Journal crossword on August 23, 2025. The correct answer for this puzzle is "SENSE", a 5-letter word.
Solution SENSE is our most searched for solution by our visitors. Solution SENSE is 5 letters long. We have 16 further solutions of the same word length.
There are 88 solutions. The longest is DIFFERENTIATE with 13 letters, and the shortest is DIG with 3 letters.
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Solutions are between 3 and 13 letters long.
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| Perceive or notice (6) | |
| Discover, identify (6) | |
| Discover; discern (6) | |
| Emulate Columbo (6) | |
| Discover the presence of (6) | |