Soul singer Franklin

The answer

ARETHA

6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ARETHA answer page.

Used 17 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• ERMA (6 uses in xd)

Other clues for ARETHA

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

• Singer Franklin - used 62 times, most recently in 2026
• "Queen of Soul" Franklin - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• "Queen of Soul" - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• First name in soul - used 26 times, most recently in 2024
• Franklin of soul - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• "Respect" singer Franklin - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• The Queen of Soul - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• The Queen of Soul, familiarly - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• "Think" singer Franklin - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Franklin known as the "Queen of Soul" - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Motown's Franklin - used 6 times, most recently in 2020

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.

• Singer Kitt - EARTHA, used 51 times
• Singer Morissette - ALANIS, used 51 times
• One-named folk singer - ODETTA, used 37 times
• "My Cup Runneth Over" singer - EDAMES, used 36 times
• Singer Easton - SHEENA, used 33 times
• Singer Brewer - TERESA, used 28 times

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