Universal principle

The answer

AXIOM

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

Used 16 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for AXIOM

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

• Self-evident truth - used 88 times, most recently in 2026
• Truism - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Accepted truth - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Wise saying - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
• Adage - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Fundamental truth - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Self-evident principle - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
• Accepted principle - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• Postulate - used 8 times, most recently in 2005
• Saw - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• Universal truth - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Established principle - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Geometry basic - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Assumed truth - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Universally accepted principle - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Words to live by - 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.

• Principle - TENET, used 183 times
• Moral principle - ETHIC, used 89 times
• Basic principle - TENET, used 64 times
• Palindromic principle - TENET, used 38 times
• Guiding principle - CREDO, used 37 times
• Guiding principle - TENET, used 34 times

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