___ noire (bane)
The crossword clue "___ noire (bane)" is answered by BETE, a 4-letter entry. Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
BETE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BETE answer page.
Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for BETE
Every other clue in this collection answered by BETE, most used first.
- ___ noire - used 171 times, most recently in 2026
- ___ noire (bugbear) - used 19 times, most recently in 2016
- Brest beast - used 12 times, most recently in 2014
- "La Belle et la ___" - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- ___ noire (fearsome entity) - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- ___ noire (pet peeve) - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
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.
- Dog bane - FLEA, used 44 times
- Babysitter's bane - BRAT, used 27 times
- Dog's bane - FLEA, used 19 times
- Striker's bane - SCAB, used 17 times
- Bodybuilder's bane - FLAB, used 12 times
- Neatnik's bane - MESS, used 12 times
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