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ARE

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ARE answer page.

Used 84 times across 26 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 16 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.

• ASI (121 uses in xd)
• EXIST (66 uses in xd)

Other clues for ARE

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

• Exist - used 858 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ we there yet?" - used 251 times, most recently in 2026
• Common verb - used 198 times, most recently in 2025
• Verb for you - used 139 times, most recently in 2026
• "You ___ here" - used 119 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ we having fun yet?" - used 115 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ you serious?" - used 98 times, most recently in 2026
• "__ you kidding?" - used 90 times, most recently in 2026
• "Chances ___" - used 86 times, most recently in 2026
• "Roses -- red" - used 86 times, most recently in 2026
• Live - used 85 times, most recently in 2022
• "Right you --!" - used 77 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ you for real?" - used 76 times, most recently in 2026
• "All bets ___ off" - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
• "What ___ the odds?" - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
• "My lips ___ sealed" - used 74 times, most recently in 2026
• "We ___ the World" - used 72 times, most recently in 2024
• "___ you kidding me?" - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ you sure?" - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
• 100 square meters - used 59 times, most recently in 2019
• "You ___ My Sunshine" - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
• Is for two? - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
• Modern art? - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
• Is for you? - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
• "__ you nuts?" - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
• Equal - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• "All the Things You ___" - used 42 times, most recently in 2025
• "You __ what you eat" - used 41 times, most recently in 2023
• Metric measure - used 40 times, most recently in 2014
• Consist of - used 38 times, most recently in 2025
• Land measure - used 35 times, most recently in 2021
• "__ You Lonesome Tonight?" - used 35 times, most recently in 2023
• "You ___ There" - used 35 times, most recently in 2025
• Have being - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Is for more than one? - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• "Odds ___ . . ." - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ you listening?" - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• "Ready when you __" - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
• "Where the Wild Things ___" - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Auxiliary verb. - used 30 times, most recently in 2004
• Is for many? - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• "Rules ___ rules" - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• "How ___ you?" - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• "Blessed ___ the meek" - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• It may follow you - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• It often follows you - used 24 times, most recently in 2019
• "___ we done here?" - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• "We ___ not amused" - used 24 times, most recently in 2024
• "Butterflies ___ Free" - used 23 times, most recently in 2016
• "We ___ Family" (Sister Sledge song) - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Were now? - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• Add up to - used 21 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• To and ___ - FRO, used 341 times
• And so on: Abbr. - ETC, used 238 times
• ___ and outs - INS, used 193 times
• Get-up-and-go - PEP, used 188 times
• Put two and two together - ADD, used 138 times
• Half and half - ONE, used 131 times

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