Short form, for short

The answer

ABBR

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ABBR answer page.

Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1973. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• ABBREV (2 uses in xd)

Other clues for ABBR

Every other clue in this collection answered by ABBR, most used first.

• Shortened wd. - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• E.g., e.g. - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
• Shortened word, for short - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Shortened form of a wd. - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Shortened form, for short - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Shortened form, in shortened form - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• This ans. is one - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• This answer, e.g. - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• I.e., e.g. - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Mr. or Mrs. - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• This ans., e.g. - used 6 times, most recently in 2016

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• Look for - SEEK, used 172 times

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