Common solecism.

The answer

AINT

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

Used 11 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 1999; first recorded in 1960. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for AINT

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

• "___ Misbehavin'" - used 131 times, most recently in 2026
• "-- She Sweet" - used 73 times, most recently in 2025
• "If it __ broke . . ." - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
• Isn't wrong? - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ it the truth!" - used 45 times, most recently in 2025
• "It ___ Necessarily So" - used 42 times, most recently in 2019
• "___ We Got Fun?" - used 36 times, most recently in 2019
• "___ That a Shame" - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
• "___ that the truth!" - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• "You ___ seen nothin' yet!" - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Slangy negative - used 20 times, most recently in 2020
• "___ No Mountain High Enough" - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• "Say it ___ so!" - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• "If it ___ broke, don't fix it" - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• "It __ over till it's over" - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ No Sunshine" - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Nonstandard contraction - used 14 times, most recently in 2017
• "___ No Sunshine" (Bill Withers hit) - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Nonstandard negative - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Informal contraction - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• "That ___ hay!" - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
• Colloquial contraction - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• ". . . and that __ hay!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• "___ I a Woman?" (Sojourner Truth speech) - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ Misbehavin"' - used 8 times, most recently in 2011
• Slangy contraction - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• "__ Too Proud to Beg" - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• "You ___ kiddin'!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Grammarian's eyebrow raiser - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Informal negative - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Dylan's "It ___ Me Babe" - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• "___ I a stinker?" (Bugs Bunny) - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• "Is so!" rebuttal - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
• "___ that somethin'?" - used 6 times, most recently in 2023

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.

• Common street name - MAIN, used 55 times
• Common French verb - ETRE, used 49 times
• Common Latin abbr. - ETAL, used 34 times
• Common conjunctions - ANDS, used 31 times
• Common contraction - ISNT, used 29 times
• Common metal - IRON, used 29 times

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