Speck
The crossword clue "Speck" is answered by ATOM, a 4-letter entry. Used 39 times across 27 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1962. It appears in 10 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 39 times across 27 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1962. It appears in 10 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.
- PARTICLE (7 uses in xd)
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
- 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
- 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.
- Speck - MOTE, used 151 times
- Speck - IOTA, used 93 times
- Speck of dust - MOTE, used 76 times
- Dust speck - MOTE, used 34 times
- Speck of land in the sea - ISLE, used 22 times
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