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BRIEF

5 letters - 9 clues in this collection

BRIEF is a 5-letter crossword answer with 9 clues in this collection. Across those clues it has 100 usages in the xd corpus, most recently in 2026. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.

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BRIEF

BRIEF

5Letters
9Clues in collection
100Combined xd usages
2026Most recent year

Combined usages add the xd usage counts of every clue below. Frequency figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Every clue for BRIEF in this collection

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  • Short - used 20 times across 15 distinct years, most recently in 2026
  • Fleeting - used 19 times across 12 distinct years, most recently in 2025
  • Succinct - used 13 times across 13 distinct years, most recently in 2025
  • To the point - used 11 times across 11 distinct years, most recently in 2024
  • Lawyer's document - used 9 times across 9 distinct years, most recently in 2024
  • Lawyer's filing - used 8 times across 6 distinct years, most recently in 2021
  • Short-lived - used 7 times across 5 distinct years, most recently in 2023
  • Short-winded - used 7 times across 7 distinct years, most recently in 2022
  • Court filing - used 6 times across 6 distinct years, most recently in 2019

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  • BERET - 5 letters, 338 combined xd usages, 24 clues in this collection
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  • BESTS - 5 letters, 306 combined xd usages, 16 clues in this collection

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