Slangy contraction

The answer

AINT

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

Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1969. It appears in 4 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.

• MUSTA (1 uses in xd)
• TAINT (1 uses in xd)

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
• Common solecism. - used 11 times, most recently in 1999
• 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
• "__ 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.

• Slangy suffix - EROO, used 76 times
• Poetic contraction. - NEER, used 70 times
• Slangy refusal - NOPE, used 47 times
• Slangy negative - NOPE, used 46 times
• Slangy reply - YEAH, used 39 times
• Slangy affirmative - YEAH, used 38 times

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