Crossword-Solution: ONSET 5 letters, 170 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Onset	n.	A rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army.
Onset	n.	A setting about; a beginning.
Onset	n.	Anything set on, or added, as an ornament or as a useful appendage.
Onset	v. t.	To assault; to set upon.
Onset	v. t.	To set about; to begin.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
ONSET	anagram	ESTON, ETONS, NOTES, ONEST, OSTEN, SETNO, SETON, STENO, STONE, TENOS, TONES

We have 170 clues for the answer “ONSET”

Clue	Answers
Active TV?	1 answer
Adult-___ diabetes	1 answer
Altered tones?	1 answer
Assault of an army.	1 answer
Attack or commencement	1 answer
Beginning of an attack?	1 answer
Beginning or attack	1 answer
Beginning or early stages	1 answer
Beginning, as of a journey	1 answer
Beginning, as of symptoms	1 answer
Beginning; attack	1 answer
Command for a TV to "begin"?	1 answer
Earliest appearance	1 answer
Earliest phase	1 answer
Earliest stage	1 answer
Earliest stage of sickness	1 answer
Earliest symptoms	1 answer
Early goings	1 answer
Electronography	1 answer
First appearance, as of illness	1 answer
First appearance, as of symptoms	1 answer
First indication	1 answer
First occurrence, as of a symptom	1 answer
First stage, as of an illness	1 answer
First symptoms	1 answer
First symptoms, e.g.	1 answer
First wave, say	1 answer
Inchoation.	1 answer
Initial assault	1 answer
Initial development	1 answer
Initial indication	1 answer
Initial stage, as of the flu	1 answer
Initial state	1 answer
Initial symptom	1 answer
It may be skipped on a lake (the Guinness record is 88(!) skips by Kurt Steiner)	1 answer
It's where it all begins	1 answer
Making a movie, perhaps	1 answer
Opening foray	1 answer
Opening phase	1 answer
Ready for a take	1 answer
Ready to act, say	1 answer
Ready to film, say	1 answer
Ready to make a movie, say	1 answer
Setting about.	1 answer
Siege beginning	1 answer
Stage at the start	1 answer
Start of an attack	1 answer
Start of symptoms	1 answer
Start or assault	1 answer
Start or beginning	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

RETEA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with ONSET (5)

Had the pirates kept together it is certain that they would have won; but the onset came when they were still unstrung, and they ran hither and thither, striking wildly, each thinking himself the last survivor of the crew.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

The onset of the Gulf crisis in August 1990 forced the government to shelve the IMF program and suspend most debt payments and rescheduling negotiations.

The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992

The force of the stream had, until very lately, been received upon some loose stones spread thereabout, which had acted as a shield to the soil under the onset.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

But if I fought not at sword’s point, you will grant me that I sounded the onset.” “And to good purpose, honest Wamba,” replied the King.

Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993

Since the onset of the conflict, which has driven approximately half of the pre-war population of 4.4 million from their homes, both the Bosnian Serbs and the Bosnian Croats have asserted control of more than three-quarters of the territory formerly under the control of the Bosnian Government.

The 1993 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1993

Quotes with ONSET (3)

You call forth the world which God has formed and that world only. Nor is this life of yours by which you set such store your doing, however you may choose to tell it. Its shape was forced in the void at the onset and all talk of what might otherwise have been is senseless for there is no otherwise. Of what could it be made? Where be hid? Or how make its appearance? The probability fo the actual is absolute. That we have no power to guess it out beforehand makes it no less ce…

Cormac McCarthy Cities of the Plain

Technology has changed the way we work, and consequently, our posture. Today, sitting has been referred to as the new smoking. This has been exacerbated by the development of handheld devices and the onset of 'tech neck'. Take the Peterson 21 day posture challenge for 'Confident Assured Posture' for a healthy future. Stand tall and live longer.

Cindy Ann Peterson My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today

Women get into a relationship hoping a man will change, and he never does; men get into a relationship hoping the woman don't change, but she always does. Men want their partners to be consistent. That they won't make impromptu impossible demands nor baffle him with classically female sudden-onset hysterical behavior.

Valerie Frankel The Girlfriend Curse

Where this answer appears

Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Custom, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 1,013 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).