The Golden State, for short

The answer

CALI

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

Used 11 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for CALI

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

• Colombian city - used 143 times, most recently in 2025
• Colombian metropolis - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• City in Colombia. - used 20 times, most recently in 2016
• City of Colombia - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• City southwest of Bogota - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• LL Cool J's "Going Back to ___" - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Cartel city - used 9 times, most recently in 2006
• City SW of Bogotá - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
• Left Coast state, informally - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• West Coast state, for short - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Infamous Colombian city - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
• "Going Back to ___" (LL Cool J) - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• West Coast state, informally - 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.

• For fear that - LEST, used 503 times
• Up to the task - ABLE, used 397 times
• In the thick of - AMID, used 377 times
• On the briny - ASEA, used 364 times
• From the top - ANEW, used 355 times
• Spill the beans - BLAB, used 313 times

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