Common contraction
The crossword clue "Common contraction" is answered by DONT, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DONT
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DONT answer page.
Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 3 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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Other clues for DONT
Every other clue in this collection answered by DONT, most used first.
- Word of warning - used 67 times, most recently in 2026
- Prohibition. - used 20 times, most recently in 2006
- Warning word - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- "Stop that!" - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- "Cut it out!" - used 15 times, most recently in 2020
- Parent's warning - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- "Stop it!" - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Parental warning - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- "Cut that out!" - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Terse warning - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- "Stop!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
- "Bad idea" - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- "___ even go there!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- "___ Fence Me In" - used 7 times, most recently in 1993
- "___ tread on me" - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Mother's admonition - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
- "__ you dare!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- "You ___ say!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
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.
- Poetic contraction. - NEER, used 70 times
- Common street name - MAIN, used 55 times
- Common French verb - ETRE, used 49 times
- Common Latin abbr. - ETAL, used 34 times
- Poetic contraction. - TWAS, used 32 times
- Common conjunctions - ANDS, used 31 times
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