Pilot
The crossword clue "Pilot" is answered by AVIATE, a 6-letter entry. Used 17 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1981. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
AVIATE
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AVIATE answer page.
Used 17 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1981. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for AVIATE
Every other clue in this collection answered by AVIATE, most used first.
- Fly - used 115 times, most recently in 2026
- Fly a plane - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
- Take to the sky - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Do the Wright thing? - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Emulate Earhart - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
- Take to the skies - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Take wing - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Fly high - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Pilot a plane - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Take to the air - used 13 times, most recently in 2011
- Be a pilot - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Take flight - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Go up - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Barnstorm, say - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Navigate the air - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Operate a plane - 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.
- Pilot Earhart - AMELIA, used 19 times
- Pilot - AIRMAN, used 13 times
- Test pilot Chuck - YEAGER, used 9 times
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