Twist or tango

The answer

DANCE

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DANCE answer page.

Used 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for DANCE

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

• Tango or twist - used 32 times, most recently in 2023
• Cut a rug - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Ball - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
• High school event - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Hula or hora - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Move to the music - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Do the tango - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
• Prom, e.g. - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Prom, for one - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Rumba or samba - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• School event - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Tango or trot - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Trip the light fantastic - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Juilliard major - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Social event - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Tango or rumba - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Terpsichore's forte - used 6 times, most recently in 2006

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.

• Literary twist - IRONY, used 58 times
• Twist - GNARL, used 22 times
• "Oliver Twist" villain - FAGIN, used 18 times
• Twist out of shape - GNARL, used 12 times
• Wry twist - IRONY, used 12 times
• Humor with a twist - IRONY, used 11 times

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