Cygnus star
The crossword clue "Cygnus star" is answered by DENEB, a 5-letter entry. Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2012. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DENEB
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DENEB answer page.
Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2012. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for DENEB
Every other clue in this collection answered by DENEB, most used first.
- Star in Cygnus - used 106 times, most recently in 2025
- Brightest star in Cygnus - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Star in the constellation Cygnus - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
- Star in the Summer Triangle - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Bright star in Cygnus - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Huge star in Cygnus - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Bright star of Cygnus - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Star in the Swan constellation - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Summer Triangle star - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Cygnus supergiant - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Supergiant in Cygnus - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
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