Living thing

The answer

BEING

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BEING answer page.

Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 9 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.

• ORGANISM (7 uses in xd)
• ENTITY (4 uses in xd)
• BIONT (1 uses in xd)
• DNA (1 uses in xd)
• ORGANIS (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for BEING

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

• Existence - used 47 times, most recently in 2024
• Life form - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
• Person - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
• Entity - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Human __; person - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Human ___ - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• For the time __; temporarily - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Creature - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Human or alien - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• Word with "well" or "human" - used 6 times, most recently in 2014

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.

• Good thing to have - ASSET, used 62 times
• Thing of the past - RELIC, used 58 times
• Davis of "Do the Right Thing" - OSSIE, used 56 times
• Good thing - ASSET, used 52 times
• It's a good thing - ASSET, used 46 times
• Thing of value - ASSET, used 39 times

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