Key near Alt

The answer

CTRL

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

Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for CTRL

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

• ___-Alt-Del - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
• PC key - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Bottom-row PC key - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• PC corner key - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• PC key below Shift - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Lower-left PC key - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Alt neighbor - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Corner key - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• PC shortcut key - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Shift neighbor - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Bottom-left PC key - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Corner PC key - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• PC combo key - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• PC keyboard key - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• City near Provo - OREM, used 108 times
• City near Lake Tahoe - RENO, used 105 times
• Island near Java - BALI, used 99 times
• School near Windsor - ETON, used 71 times
• City near Phoenix - MESA, used 67 times
• School near Windsor Castle - ETON, used 58 times

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