"It's ___ a while"

The answer

BEEN

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

Used 13 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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
• "___ 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
• "How have you ___?" - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ 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.

• It's a long story - SAGA, used 161 times
• Say it's so - AVER, used 97 times
• "Now it's clear!" - ISEE, used 85 times
• Prefix for while - ERST, used 75 times
• In a while - ANON, used 64 times
• Quite a while - AGES, used 60 times

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