Wait awhile

The answer

BIDE

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

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• COOLONESHEELS (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for BIDE

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

• ___ one's time (wait) - used 89 times, most recently in 2026
• Wait - used 74 times, most recently in 2024
• ___ one's time - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Tarry - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Remain - used 27 times, most recently in 2024
• Wait patiently - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
• __ one's time (be patient) - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
• Await - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• Sit tight - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Dwell - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
• Linger - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
• ___ one's time (wait patiently) - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Patiently wait - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Wait for - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• ___ your time (wait) - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• "Wait ___!" - ASEC, used 46 times
• "__ hardly wait!" - ICAN, used 26 times
• Wait in hiding - LURK, used 20 times
• Lie in wait - LURK, used 19 times
• "Wait just ___!" - ASEC, used 19 times
• "But wait, there's ___!" - MORE, used 18 times

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