"How have you ___?"

The answer

BEEN

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BEEN answer page.

Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1970. 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

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• EEN (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for BEEN

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

• "___ there, done that" - used 123 times, most recently in 2026
• Existed - used 82 times, most recently in 2026
• "It's ___ real!" - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
• Has-___ - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• "Where have you ___?" - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
• "I've ___ had!" - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Auxiliary verb. - used 19 times, most recently in 1997
• "How've you ___?" - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• "I've ___ to London . . . " - used 17 times, most recently in 2002
• Has attachment - used 15 times, most recently in 2013
• "It's ___ a while" - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ here long?" - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• "I've ___ thinking ..." - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Common verb. - used 10 times, most recently in 1975
• "___ waiting long?" - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• "I've __ Working on the Railroad" - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Lived - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• "___ there" - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• "I've __ robbed!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
• "___ Caught Stealing" (Jane's Addiction song) - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• "It's __ fun" - used 6 times, most recently in 2022

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.

• "Hey, you!" - PSST, used 325 times
• "You said it!" - AMEN, used 257 times
• Have to have - NEED, used 230 times
• Must have - NEED, used 172 times
• "How sweet ___!" - ITIS, used 140 times
• "Would ___ to you?" - ILIE, used 135 times

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