Unoriginal
The crossword clue "Unoriginal" is answered by BANAL, a 5-letter entry. Used 17 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1990. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
BANAL
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BANAL answer page.
Used 17 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1990. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for BANAL
Every other clue in this collection answered by BANAL, most used first.
- Hackneyed - used 75 times, most recently in 2025
- Trite - used 73 times, most recently in 2026
- Commonplace - used 42 times, most recently in 2024
- Insipid - used 26 times, most recently in 2023
- Yawn-inducing - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
- Humdrum - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Far from fresh - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
- Run-of-the-mill - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Everyday - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Ho-hum - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Old hat - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Far from original - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Boringly unoriginal - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
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.
- Unoriginal - TRITE, used 21 times
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