Start a poker pot
The crossword clue "Start a poker pot" is answered by ANTE, a 4-letter entry. Used 31 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
ANTE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ANTE answer page.
Used 31 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ANTE
Every other clue in this collection answered by ANTE, most used first.
- Poker payment - used 242 times, most recently in 2026
- Pay to play - used 214 times, most recently in 2026
- Poker stake - used 172 times, most recently in 2026
- Pot starter - used 158 times, most recently in 2026
- Feed the kitty - used 132 times, most recently in 2026
- Chip in - used 95 times, most recently in 2026
- Poker pot starter - used 92 times, most recently in 2026
- Initial stake - used 82 times, most recently in 2026
- Poker buy-in - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
- Initial chip - used 63 times, most recently in 2026
- Initial poker payment - used 58 times, most recently in 2026
- Start the pot - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
- Part of A.M. - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
- Status quo ___. - used 45 times, most recently in 2019
- Initial poker stake - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
- Poker hand starter - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
- Pot builder - used 40 times, most recently in 2025
- Chip in a chip - used 39 times, most recently in 2023
- Stud fee? - used 38 times, most recently in 2020
- Start a pot - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Pay for a hand - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Starting stake - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
- Get the pot going - used 29 times, most recently in 2021
- Poker starter - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Price to play - used 28 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.
- Poker variety - STUD, used 97 times
- From the start - ANEW, used 96 times
- Dynamic start - AERO, used 94 times
- Flying start? - AERO, used 89 times
- Earthenware pot - OLLA, used 81 times
- Earthen pot - OLLA, used 71 times
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