Participate in an auction

The answer

BID

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BID answer page.

Used 20 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for BID

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

• Auction action - used 151 times, most recently in 2026
• Auction offer - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• eBay offer - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Offer - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• eBay action - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Make an offer - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Bridge action - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Auction signal - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Invitation - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
• "The Price Is Right" action - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Command - used 7 times, most recently in 1992
• Contractor's offer - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Invite - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Nod, maybe - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Bridge call - used 6 times, most recently in 2004
• Contractor's proposal - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• One heart, e.g. - used 6 times, most recently in 2018

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.

• Auction unit - LOT, used 89 times
• Auction ending - EER, used 46 times
• Auction offering - LOT, used 40 times
• Auction buy - LOT, used 38 times
• Auction signal - NOD, used 30 times
• Auction action - NOD, used 23 times

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