Lie alongside

The answer

ABUT

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

Used 18 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 8 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.

• ABUTON (1 uses in xd)

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
• 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
• Be tangent to - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• 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

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.

• "It's ___ to Tell a Lie" - ASIN, used 39 times
• Lie low - HIDE, used 33 times
• Lie in the sun - BASK, used 25 times
• Lie in wait - LURK, used 19 times
• Alongside - WITH, used 15 times
• Pinocchio's lie detector - NOSE, used 14 times

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