Common viper

The answer

ADDER

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ADDER answer page.

Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1960. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ADDER

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

• Venomous snake - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
• Venomous viper - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Viper - used 37 times, most recently in 2013
• European viper - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Snake - used 28 times, most recently in 1998
• Calculating snake? - used 18 times, most recently in 2018
• Dangerous snake - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Abacus user - used 15 times, most recently in 2019
• Milk snake - used 14 times, most recently in 2004
• Poisonous snake - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Puff ___ - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
• Summer - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
• Deadly viper - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• Puff ___ (snake) - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Calculator, at times - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Deadly snake - used 8 times, most recently in 2022

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.

• Less common - RARER, used 151 times
• "Common Sense" author - PAINE, used 62 times
• Not as common - RARER, used 41 times
• Common contraction - ARENT, used 40 times
• "Common Sense" writer - PAINE, used 37 times
• "Common Sense" pamphleteer - PAINE, used 25 times

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