Lady of the knight

The answer

DAME

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

Used 15 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for DAME

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

• Title for Judi Dench - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• British title - used 39 times, most recently in 2024
• Title for Helen Mirren - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
• Knight's wife - used 24 times, most recently in 2015
• Titled woman - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Agatha Christie title - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Knighted woman - used 20 times, most recently in 2023
• Notre ___ - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Titled lady - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Titled British woman - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Title for Maggie Smith - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Knight's lady - used 13 times, most recently in 2019
• Feminine title. - used 11 times, most recently in 1965
• "The Hunchback of Notre ___" - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Title for Agatha Christie - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Agatha Christie's title - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Title Christie held - used 9 times, most recently in 1989
• University of Notre __ - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Broad - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
• Knight's equivalent - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Title for Julie Andrews - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Judi Dench, for one - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
• Lady's title - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Title for Myra Hess - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
• Judi Dench, e.g. - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Lady - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Maggie Smith's title - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• "There Is Nothin' Like a __" - used 6 times, most recently in 2012

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.

• 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
• Away from the wind - ALEE, used 282 times

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