Basic rhyme scheme
The crossword clue "Basic rhyme scheme" is answered by ABAB, a 4-letter entry. Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ABAB
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ABAB answer page.
Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- ABCB (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for ABAB
Every other clue in this collection answered by ABAB, most used first.
- Rhyme scheme - used 49 times, most recently in 2010
- Simple rhyme scheme - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
- Common rhyme scheme - used 25 times, most recently in 2018
- Quatrain scheme - used 18 times, most recently in 2016
- Quatrain rhyme scheme - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Scheme - PLAN, used 113 times
- "Rhyme Pays" rapper - ICET, used 78 times
- Scheme - PLOT, used 77 times
- Basic idea - GIST, used 43 times
- Basic French verb - ETRE, used 41 times
- Start of a counting rhyme - EENY, used 41 times
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