First letter of the Hebrew alphabet

The answer

ALEPH

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

Used 15 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2023. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• ALEF (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for ALEPH

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

• First Hebrew letter - used 90 times, most recently in 2026
• Hebrew letter - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• Hebrew leader? - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Letter before beth - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
• Hebrew alphabet opener - used 12 times, most recently in 2017
• Hebrew "A" - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Beth's predecessor - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Beth follows it - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Hebrew alphabet starter - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Start of the Hebrew alphabet - used 7 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• In the know - AWARE, used 356 times
• First name in cosmetics - ESTEE, used 242 times
• To the point - TERSE, used 194 times
• Take the wheel - STEER, used 188 times
• Last Greek letter - OMEGA, used 187 times
• Cream of the crop - ELITE, used 175 times

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