___ noire (bugbear)
The crossword clue "___ noire (bugbear)" is answered by BETE, a 4-letter entry. Used 19 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 6 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 19 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 6 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
- Brest beast - used 12 times, most recently in 2014
- ___ noire (bane) - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- "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.
- Bete noire - BANE, used 7 times
- Bugbear - OGRE, used 7 times
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