Routine task
The crossword clue "Routine task" is answered by CHORE, a 5-letter entry. Used 15 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1975. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
CHORE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CHORE answer page.
Used 15 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1975. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for CHORE
Every other clue in this collection answered by CHORE, most used first.
- Task - used 75 times, most recently in 2023
- Household task - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Odd job - used 16 times, most recently in 2005
- Tedious task - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- To-do list item - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Milking the cows, e.g. - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
- Slopping the hogs, e.g. - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Tiresome task - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Job - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Mowing the lawn, e.g. - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
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.
- Task - STINT, used 23 times
- Take to task - SCOLD, used 22 times
- Ingrained routine - HABIT, used 15 times
- Routine - USUAL, used 15 times
- More up to the task - ABLER, used 14 times
- Not up to the task - INEPT, used 12 times
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