Letter before beth

The answer

ALEPH

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

Used 14 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1997. 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.

• ALEF (2 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
• First letter of the Hebrew alphabet - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
• 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.

• Last Greek letter - OMEGA, used 187 times
• First Greek letter - ALPHA, used 108 times
• Greek letter - THETA, used 103 times
• Last letter - OMEGA, used 83 times
• Letter before iota - THETA, used 79 times
• Before - UNTIL, used 59 times

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