Crossword-Solution: RUMOR 5 letters, 169 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Rumor	n.	A flying or popular report; the common talk; hence, public fame; notoriety.
Rumor	n.	A current story passing from one person to another, without any known authority for its truth; -- in this sense often personified.
Rumor	n.	A prolonged, indistinct noise.
Rumor	v. t.	To report by rumor; to tell.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
RUMOR	anagram	MURRO

We have 169 clues for the answer “RUMOR”

Clue	Answers
"Elvis is alive," according to some	1 answer
"Little birds" spread one	1 answer
"Tamper not with idle ___."—Hageman.	1 answer
"The news service of the weak": Ceram	1 answer
"__ has it ... "	1 answer
A bit of dirt	1 answer
A bit of tea, in a way	1 answer
Back-fence talk	1 answer
Bit of tongue-wagging	1 answer
Bruited-about tale	1 answer
Buzz from a mill?	1 answer
Buzz heard in the office	1 answer
Circulating story	1 answer
Device of enemy propaganda.	1 answer
Dirt that gets spread	1 answer
E! News fodder	1 answer
Elvis sighting, probably	1 answer
Fast mover in an office	1 answer
Fast traveler, at times	1 answer
Fast-traveling thing.	1 answer
Fodder for People	1 answer
General talk, hearsay	1 answer
Gossip mill's product	1 answer
Gossip's forte.	1 answer
Gossipmonger's buzz	1 answer
Gossipy story	1 answer
Grapevine buzz	1 answer
Grapevine concern	1 answer
Grapevine gleaning	1 answer
Grapevine gleanings.	1 answer
Grapevine growth	1 answer
Grapevine product	1 answer
Grapevine story	1 answer
Grapevine stuff	1 answer
Grapevine tale.	1 answer
Grapevine traveler	1 answer
Grist for a yenta's mill	1 answer
Grist for the tabloid mill?	1 answer
I heard it through the grapevine	1 answer
Inedible spreadable	1 answer
It "has it"	1 answer
It ain't necessarily so	1 answer
It could be spread human-to-human	1 answer
It may be mixed with the truth	1 answer
It may be spread	1 answer
It may be whispered	1 answer
It might be true . . . or not	1 answer
It might begin "Did you hear ...?"	1 answer
It often goes through the mill	1 answer
It travels by grapevine.	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ETREA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with RUMOR (5)

Hackish sources at IBM deny the rumor that the Bay Area quake of 1989 was initiated by the company to test quality-assurance procedures at its California plants.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

However, rumor had it that somewhere between two thousand and fifty thousand slaves were connected with the conspiracy.

The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008

Neither had he heard any rumor of the coming of the Father of Therns and the black dator of the First Born, but he hastened to explain that he knew little of what took place within the palace.

The Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

When the inquirer came at last he got but one fact—no, _legend_—and got that one at second hand, from a person who had only heard it as a rumor and didn’t claim copyright in it as a production of his own.

What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

They spread more by rumor than by infection." When asked how he made his living, he responded, "I sell antidotes to computer viruses." Does he make a good living? "I can't keep up with the demand," he insists.

Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993

Quotes with RUMOR (3)

A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the infection. And in such cases when a rumor is only partially made of truth, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly where the information may have gone wrong. It is passed on and on until some brave soul questions its validity; that brave soul refuses to bite the apple and let the apple eat him. For…

Criss Jami Killosophy

If humor and rumor are needed more than faith and truth, then it tells me something about the kind of world we live today.

Toba Beta Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

And though there’s a grain of truth in every rumor, I’ve found that the worst gossip usually starts with something harmless.

Kathleen O'Dell The Aviary

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 245 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).