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DELETE

6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DELETE answer page.

Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for DELETE

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

• Strike out - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Take out - used 47 times, most recently in 2025
• Erase - used 35 times, most recently in 2025
• Computer key - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
• Expunge - used 18 times, most recently in 2019
• Cross out - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
• Remove - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
• Backspace over - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Strike - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Cancel - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
• Get rid of - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Cut - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Eliminate - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
• Keyboard key - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Wipe out - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• X - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• X out - used 6 times, most recently in 2005

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.

• Come out - EMERGE, used 130 times
• Way out - EGRESS, used 115 times
• Draw out - ELICIT, used 101 times
• Take for granted - ASSUME, used 100 times
• Take turns - ROTATE, used 82 times
• Out of bed - ARISEN, used 80 times

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