Old counters
The crossword clue "Old counters" is answered by ABACI, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2007. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ABACI
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ABACI answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2007. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ABACI
Every other clue in this collection answered by ABACI, most used first.
- You can count on them - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Early calculators - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Ancient calculators - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Beaded calculators - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Old calculators - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
- Counters with beads - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Beaded counters - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Primitive calculators - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Bead counters - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Early counters - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Old adders - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- Low-tech calculators - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
- Early adders - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
- Precalculator calculators - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Simple calculators - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
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.
- Old anesthetic - ETHER, used 156 times
- Old-womanish - ANILE, used 155 times
- Old saying - ADAGE, used 127 times
- Old hat - PASSE, used 100 times
- Old enough - OFAGE, used 97 times
- "Old MacDonald" refrain - EIEIO, used 97 times
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