Basic unit of matter
The crossword clue "Basic unit of matter" is answered by ATOM, a 4-letter entry. Used 21 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
ATOM
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ATOM answer page.
Used 21 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ATOM
Every other clue in this collection answered by ATOM, most used first.
- Molecule part - used 269 times, most recently in 2026
- Tiny particle - used 96 times, most recently in 2026
- Particle - used 82 times, most recently in 2009
- Part of a molecule - used 79 times, most recently in 2026
- Molecule component - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
- Energy source - used 66 times, most recently in 2025
- Teensy bit - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
- Tiny bit - used 58 times, most recently in 2026
- Proton's place - used 55 times, most recently in 2025
- Jot - used 48 times, most recently in 2004
- Mighty mite - used 45 times, most recently in 2012
- Physics bit - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
- Elemental unit - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Speck - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
- Small matter? - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Bit - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Fermi's bit - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Nuclear energy source - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
- Bit of matter - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Power source - used 27 times, most recently in 2021
- __ smasher - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
- Quark's place - used 23 times, most recently in 2022
- Elemental bit - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Scintilla - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
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- Farmland unit - ACRE, used 92 times
- Rating unit - STAR, used 80 times
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