Religious rationalist

The answer

DEIST

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

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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
• Believer of a sort - 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
• 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.

• Religious offshoots - SECTS, used 58 times
• Religious groups - SECTS, used 46 times
• Religious leader - RABBI, used 33 times
• Religious factions - SECTS, used 31 times
• Religious ceremonies - RITES, used 26 times
• Religious doctrine - DOGMA, used 25 times

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