Be tangent to
The crossword clue "Be tangent to" is answered by ABUT, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1987. 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
ABUT
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ABUT answer page.
Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1987. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ABUT
Every other clue in this collection answered by ABUT, most used first.
- Border on - used 472 times, most recently in 2026
- Share a border with - used 152 times, most recently in 2026
- Touch - used 134 times, most recently in 2026
- Touch on - used 123 times, most recently in 2026
- Lie next to - used 80 times, most recently in 2026
- Be adjacent to - used 67 times, most recently in 2026
- Adjoin - used 62 times, most recently in 2026
- Be next to - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
- Border - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
- Neighbor - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
- Touch upon - used 40 times, most recently in 2020
- Share a border - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Be up against - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Lie adjacent to - used 26 times, most recently in 2024
- Border upon - used 24 times, most recently in 2018
- Sit next to - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Lie alongside - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
- Go up against - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Bump up against - used 16 times, most recently in 2020
- Come up against - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Neighbor on - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Be against - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Have an edge against - used 14 times, most recently in 2018
- Share a side with - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Touch against - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
- Lean against - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
- Be flush with - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Lie adjacent - used 10 times, most recently in 2005
- Touch borders with - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Be contiguous. - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- Touch up against - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- End at - used 8 times, most recently in 2003
- Set edge-to-edge - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- Touch at one end - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
- Juxtapose - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Share a boundary with - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Lie against - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Touch at the edge - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Touch on one side - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Touch the border of - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Verge on - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
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