Tooth that turns

The answer

COG

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the COG answer page.

Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for COG

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

• Gear tooth - used 202 times, most recently in 2026
• Gear part - used 35 times, most recently in 2025
• Machine part - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
• Minor player - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Machinery part - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Gearwheel tooth - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Machine tooth - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Wheel tooth - used 16 times, most recently in 2020
• Mechanical tooth - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Tooth - used 12 times, most recently in 2002
• Minor worker - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Sprocket - used 8 times, most recently in 2007
• Turning tooth - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Small part of a machine - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Tooth on a gearwheel - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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• That girl - HER, used 229 times
• That woman - SHE, used 222 times
• That woman - HER, used 199 times
• That guy - HIM, used 189 times
• That lady - SHE, used 149 times

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