Elemental bit
The crossword clue "Elemental bit" is answered by ATOM, a 4-letter entry. Used 22 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2008. It appears in 12 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 22 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2008. It appears in 12 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
- Scintilla - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Basic unit of matter - 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.
- Tiny bit - IOTA, used 286 times
- Teeny bit - IOTA, used 93 times
- Open a bit - AJAR, used 84 times
- Bit - IOTA, used 80 times
- Wee bit - IOTA, used 79 times
- Little bit - IOTA, used 76 times
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