Believer of a sort

The answer

DEIST

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

Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1962. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• THEIST (2 uses in xd)

Other clues for DEIST

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

• Certain believer - used 17 times, most recently in 2021
• Believer in God - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Jefferson was one - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Believer in a nonintervening God - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Believer - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
• Jefferson, religiously - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Certain believer in God - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Thomas Jefferson, religiously - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Jefferson, for one - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Rational believer - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Religious rationalist - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Thomas Jefferson, for one - used 6 times, most recently in 2024

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.

• Solitary sort - LONER, used 82 times
• Gossipy sort - YENTA, used 40 times
• Lazy sort - IDLER, used 20 times
• Selfish sort - TAKER, used 20 times
• Nosy sort - SNOOP, used 16 times
• Intolerant sort - BIGOT, used 15 times

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