Crossword-Solution: SCARCE 6 letters, 92 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Scarce	superl.	Not plentiful or abundant; in small quantity in proportion to the demand; not easily to be procured; rare; uncommon.
Scarce	superl.	Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); -- with of.
Scarce	superl.	Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; stingy.
Scarce	adv.	Alt. of Scarcely

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
SCARCE	anagram	ARCSEC

We have 92 clues for the answer “SCARCE”

Clue	Answers
Like capital letters in many E. E. Cummings poems	1 answer
More common than rare	1 answer
Like water in the desert	1 answer
Like the nene	1 answer
Like some resources	1 answer
Like rationing candidates	1 answer
Like hens' teeth, so it's said	1 answer
Like farmland in Ethiopia	1 answer
Like embargoed goods	1 answer
Like collectible items	1 answer
By no means plentiful	1 answer
Like cabs on a rainy day, seemingly	1 answer
Like cabs on a rainy day	1 answer
Hard to find or in short supply	1 answer
Insufficient for the demand (especially of the food and money)	1 answer
Insufficient for demand	1 answer
Hard to obtain	1 answer
Hard to dig up	1 answer
88 Something to make yourself	1 answer
Not at all abundant	1 answer
__ as hen's teeth (rather rare)	1 answer
What the crowd is for starter bands	1 answer
Unplentiful	1 answer
Subject to rationing	1 answer
Something to make yourself	1 answer
Seldom met with.	1 answer
See 75D	1 answer
Rarely encountered	1 answer
Pretty hard to find	1 answer
Opposite of abundant	1 answer
One way to make yourself	1 answer
Numismatist's description	1 answer
Not widely available	1 answer
Not seen a lot	1 answer
Not often found	1 answer
Not easy to come by	1 answer
Not around much	1 answer
Like some Beanie Babies	2 answers
Like hens' teeth, so to speak	2 answers
Very limited	2 answers
Tough to find	2 answers
Seldom seen	2 answers
Not easy to find	2 answers
Like hen's teeth	2 answers
Hard to come by	2 answers
Way to make yourself	2 answers
"Make yourself ___"	2 answers
Rarely seen	2 answers
Hardly plentiful	3 answers
Not often seen	3 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

AERET

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Unscramble SCARCE 6-letter words that start with S 6-letter words that end in E 6-letter words containing CA 6-letter words containing CE 6-letter words with S and C

Sentences with SCARCE (5)

She was the cannibal of the seas, and scarce needed that watchful eye, for she floated immune in the horror of her name.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

Others with vast _Typhoean_ rage more fell Rend up both Rocks and Hills, and ride the Air In whirlwind; Hell scarce holds the wilde uproar.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

Hamilton used to sit in a large chair in the middle of the room, with a heavy cowskin always by her side, and scarce an hour passed during the day but was marked by the blood of one of these slaves.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992

You can scarce imagine how nauseatingly inhuman they looked—those pale, chinless faces and great, lidless, pinkish-grey eyes!—as they stared in their blindness and bewilderment.

The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992

Save for that sound we lay quite still in the scullery; I for my part scarce dared breathe, and sat with my eyes fixed on the faint light of the kitchen door.

The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992

Quotes with SCARCE (3)

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir... mighty scarce.

Mark Twain

With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by this wintry wind Shall never don again its green array. Chapel and fireside, country road and bay, Have something of their friendliness resigned; Another, if I would, I could not find, And I am grown much older in a day. But yet I treasure in my memory Your gift of charity, and young hearts ease, And the dear honour of your amity; For these once mine, my life is rich with thes…

George Santayana

This is the creature there has never been. They never knew it, and yet, none the less, they loved the way it moved, its suppleness, its neck, its very gaze, mild and serene. Not there, because they loved it, it behavedas though it were. They always left some space. And in that clear unpeopled space they savedit lightly reared its head, with scarce a traceof not being there. They fed it, not with corn, but only with the possibilityof being. And that was able to confersuch stre…

Rainer Maria Rilke

Where this answer appears

Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 146 times in crossword archives (1962–2025).