Term of endearment
The crossword clue "Term of endearment" is answered by BABE, a 4-letter entry. Used 19 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1952. 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
BABE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BABE answer page.
Used 19 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1952. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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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
- 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
- Ruth - used 13 times, most recently in 2014
- 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
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