Crossword clues - Answer
ANTE
ANTE is a 4-letter crossword answer with 7 clues in this pilot. Across those clues it has 1,092 usages in the xd corpus, most recently in 2026. Every figure on this page comes from the pilot data itself.
The answer
ANTE
ANTE
4Letters
7Clues in pilot
1,092Combined xd usages
2026Most recent year
Combined usages add the xd usage counts of every clue below. Frequency figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Every clue for ANTE in this pilot
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- Poker payment - used 242 times across 39 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Pay to play - used 214 times across 36 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Poker stake - used 172 times across 58 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Pot starter - used 158 times across 34 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Feed the kitty - used 132 times across 48 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Poker pot starter - used 92 times across 30 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Initial stake - used 82 times across 20 distinct years, most recently in 2026
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