Ruth
The crossword clue "Ruth" is answered by BABE, a 4-letter entry. Used 13 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1969. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
BABE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BABE answer page.
Used 13 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1969. It appears in 2 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.
- PITYFORANOTHER (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for BABE
Every other clue in this collection answered by BABE, most used first.
- Innocent one - used 65 times, most recently in 2026
- Paul Bunyan's ox - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Sweetie - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Movie pig - used 23 times, most recently in 2023
- Infant - used 19 times, most recently in 2021
- Paul Bunyan's blue ox - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Term of endearment - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Baseball's Ruth - used 16 times, most recently in 2022
- __ in the woods (innocent one) - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Innocent - used 14 times, most recently in 2020
- Newborn - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Bunyan's blue ox - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
- Honey - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Ruth or Herman - used 12 times, most recently in 2014
- Slugger Ruth - used 12 times, most recently in 2016
- Baseball great Ruth - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Bunyan's ox - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
- Hon - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- George Herman Ruth - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- One "in the woods" - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- Movie piglet - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Blue ox of folklore - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Cinematic pig - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- George Herman Ruth, familiarly - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- "I Got You ___" (Sonny & Cher song) - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- __ in the woods - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Ruth or Didrikson - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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.
- Husband of Ruth - BOAZ, used 18 times
- Son of Boaz and Ruth. - OBED, used 12 times
- Hit like Ruth - SWAT, used 7 times
- Sultan of ___ (Babe Ruth) - SWAT, used 7 times
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