Prove beneficial
The crossword clue "Prove beneficial" is answered by AVAIL, a 5-letter entry. Used 12 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
AVAIL
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AVAIL answer page.
Used 12 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for AVAIL
Every other clue in this collection answered by AVAIL, most used first.
- Be of use - used 176 times, most recently in 2026
- Benefit - used 116 times, most recently in 2026
- Be of use to - used 79 times, most recently in 2026
- Profit - used 59 times, most recently in 2020
- To no ___ - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
- Use - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
- To no __ (useless) - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
- To no ___ (fruitlessly) - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- To no ___ (in vain) - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Advantage - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
- "... but to no ___" - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
- Prove useful - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
- Be of service to - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
- Serve the purpose - used 21 times, most recently in 2016
- To no ___ (unsuccessfully) - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Help - used 20 times, most recently in 2023
- To no ___ (without success) - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Serve - used 17 times, most recently in 2019
- Be useful to - used 14 times, most recently in 2021
- Make use of - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Effective use - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
- Be of help - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Be of help to - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Do the trick - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Be of service - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Efficacy - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
- To no ___ (uselessly) - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Be of benefit - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Prove useful to - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Be helpful to - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- To no ___ (futilely) - used 6 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.
- Prove false - BELIE, used 48 times
- Beneficial - UTILE, used 19 times
- Beneficial - OFUSE, used 18 times
- Prove untrue - BELIE, used 11 times
- Prove otherwise - BELIE, used 6 times
- Prove to be false - BELIE, used 6 times
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