Bass or treble
The crossword clue "Bass or treble" is answered by CLEF, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1972. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
CLEF
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CLEF answer page.
Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1972. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for CLEF
Every other clue in this collection answered by CLEF, most used first.
- Staff symbol - used 80 times, most recently in 2026
- Musical symbol - used 73 times, most recently in 2025
- Staff leader? - used 62 times, most recently in 2026
- Pitch indicator - used 33 times, most recently in 2025
- Musical sign - used 31 times, most recently in 2024
- Sheet music symbol - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Music staff symbol - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Musical staff symbol - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Music symbol - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Symbol on a staff - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
- Treble __; musical symbol - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
- Pitch symbol - used 11 times, most recently in 2008
- Score symbol - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Staff sign - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
- First symbol on a musical staff - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Music score symbol - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Sign on a staff - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Treble or bass - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Symbol on a musical staff - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Bass or treble, e.g. - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Sheet music sign - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Staff member? - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
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.
- Bass ___ - VIOL, used 19 times
- Porgy and bass - FISH, used 13 times
- Bass brass - TUBA, used 7 times
- Bass organ - GILL, used 6 times
- Bass part - GILL, used 6 times
- Bass parts - FINS, used 6 times
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