Constellation's brightest star
The crossword clue "Constellation's brightest star" is answered by ALPHA, a 5-letter entry. Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2024. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ALPHA
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ALPHA answer page.
Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2024. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ALPHA
Every other clue in this collection answered by ALPHA, most used first.
- First Greek letter - used 108 times, most recently in 2026
- Dominant - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Omega's opposite - used 47 times, most recently in 2024
- Top dog - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
- Greek leader? - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- First letter - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- __-Bits (letter-shaped cereal) - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Greek letter - used 22 times, most recently in 2015
- Letter before beta - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- A, as in Athens - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Leader of the pack - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Socially dominant - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
- Series opener - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Beginning - used 13 times, most recently in 2010
- First in a series - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Greek vowel - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Homer's first letter - used 11 times, most recently in 2014
- ___ male - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- ___ Centauri - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Pack leader - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Aristotle's A - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- First letter of the Greek alphabet - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Generation after Z - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Dominant male - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- First of a series - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
Related clues
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- Star in Orion - RIGEL, used 78 times
- Star - CELEB, used 62 times
- "Superman" star - REEVE, used 60 times
- "Lou Grant" star - ASNER, used 50 times
- Tennis star Rafael - NADAL, used 48 times
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