Crossword-Solution: STAPLE 6 letters, 202 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Staple	n.	A settled mart; an emporium; a city or town to which merchants brought commodities for sale or exportation in bulk; a place for wholesale traffic.
Staple	n.	Hence: Place of supply; source; fountain head.
Staple	n.	The principal commodity of traffic in a market; a principal commodity or production of a country or district; as, wheat, maize, and cotton are great staples of the United States.
Staple	n.	The principal constituent in anything; chief item.
Staple	n.	Unmanufactured material; raw material.
Staple	n.	The fiber of wool, cotton, flax, or the like; as, a coarse staple; a fine staple; a long or short staple.
Staple	n.	A loop of iron, or a bar or wire, bent and formed with two points to be driven into wood, to hold a hook, pin, or the like.
Staple	n.	A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
Staple	n.	A small pit.
Staple	n.	A district granted to an abbey.
Staple	a.	Pertaining to, or being market of staple for, commodities; as, a staple town.
Staple	a.	Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled; as, a staple trade.
Staple	a.	Fit to be sold; marketable.
Staple	a.	Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
Staple	v. t.	To sort according to its staple; as, to staple cotton.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
STAPLE	anagram	PALEST, PALETS, PASTEL, PETALS, PLATES, PLEATS, SEPTAL

We have 202 clues for the answer “STAPLE”

Clue	Answers
Common office fastener	1 answer
A word having five anagrams	1 answer
Alternative to a paper clip	1 answer
Ammunition for a certain gun	1 answer
Basic commodity	1 answer
Basic fare	1 answer
Basic food item	1 answer
Basic foodstuff	1 answer
Basic item	1 answer
Basic necessity	1 answer
Bent item in an office products logo	1 answer
Binding part of some legal documents?	1 answer
Bracket-shaped fastener	1 answer
Bread for example not fresh, but quietly accepted	1 answer
Bread is one	1 answer
Bread or butter	1 answer
Bread or milk, e.g.	1 answer
Bread or rice	1 answer
Bread or rice, e.g.	1 answer
Bread, e.g.	1 answer
Bread, for one	1 answer
Bread, milk or eggs	1 answer
CHIEF commodity of a region	1 answer
COMMODITY of a region	1 answer
Centerfold sight	1 answer
Certain gun projectile	1 answer
Chase scenes, in action films	1 answer
Chief commodity of a place.	1 answer
Chief item.	1 answer
Comic book fastener	1 answer
Contract binder?	1 answer
Corner fastener	1 answer
Corner item	1 answer
Essential commodity	1 answer
Everyday element	1 answer
Fasten sheets	1 answer
Fasten together, as papers	1 answer
Fasten together, as two sheets	1 answer
Fastener for sheets	1 answer
Fastener holding together a multi-page printout	1 answer
Fastener shot from a gun	1 answer
Fastener that looks like U?	1 answer
Fish sauce, e.g., in Vietnamese cuisine	1 answer
Fixer of sheets	1 answer
Flour or salt	1 answer
Flour or sugar	1 answer
Flour, for instance	1 answer
Flour, salt, sugar, e.g.	1 answer
Flour, sugar or salt, e.g.	1 answer
Flour, sugar or salt.	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ATERE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Unscramble STAPLE 6-letter words that start with S 6-letter words that end in E 6-letter words containing TA 6-letter words containing LE 6-letter words with S and T

Sentences with STAPLE (5)

The country is not self-sufficient in food production, and rice, the main staple, accounts for 90% of imports.

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

Nothing disturbed the stillness of the cottage save the chatter of a knot of sparrows on the eaves; one might fancy scandal and _tracasseries_ to be no less the staple subject of these little coteries on roofs than of those under them.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

But the fruits were very delightful; one, in particular, that seemed to be in season all the time I was there—a floury thing in a three-sided husk—was especially good, and I made it my staple.

The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992

The match went out, and so did we, and shoved in the staple again, and the door was locked as good as ever.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Esther’s wrists were firmly tied, and the twisted rope was fastened to a strong staple in a heavy wooden joist above, near the fireplace.

My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass 1995

Quotes with STAPLE (3)

Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society.

Marie Brennan

Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121)

Robin R. Meyers Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

Trust a politician? I would rather staple gun my nuts to the back of a charging rhino.

Steve Merrick

Where this answer appears

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

Used 199 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).