Hearing-based

The answer

AURAL

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AURAL answer page.

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2008. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for AURAL

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

• Hearing-related - used 147 times, most recently in 2026
• Of the ear - used 78 times, most recently in 2024
• Of hearing - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
• Ear-related - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Acoustic - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Perceived by the ear - used 15 times, most recently in 2013
• Pertaining to hearing - used 13 times, most recently in 2018
• Sound-related - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Heard, but not seen - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Pertaining to the ear - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Related to hearing - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Ear-relevant - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Otic - used 8 times, most recently in 2009
• Sound-based - used 8 times, most recently in 2025

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