Nerve fiber
The crossword clue "Nerve fiber" is answered by AXON, a 4-letter entry. Used 20 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
AXON
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AXON answer page.
Used 20 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 8 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.
- DENDRITE (2 uses in xd)
Other clues for AXON
Every other clue in this collection answered by AXON, most used first.
- Neural transmitter - used 61 times, most recently in 2026
- Nerve-cell part - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Impulse carrier - used 27 times, most recently in 2018
- Impulse transmitter - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Nerve-cell process - used 21 times, most recently in 2012
- Impulse conductor - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Nerve cell transmitter - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Neuron part - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Part of a nerve cell - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Nerve cell appendage - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Neuron appendage - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Impulse relayer - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Nerve cell extension - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Neural conductor - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Nerve impulse relayer - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Nerve impulse transmitter - 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.
- Rope fiber - HEMP, used 106 times
- Coconut fiber - COIR, used 96 times
- Have the nerve - DARE, used 88 times
- Fiber source - BRAN, used 84 times
- Nerve network - RETE, used 45 times
- Burlap fiber - JUTE, used 30 times
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