Functional start?
The crossword clue "Functional start?" is answered by DYS, a 3-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DYS
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DYS answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for DYS
Every other clue in this collection answered by DYS, most used first.
- Bad: Prefix - used 21 times, most recently in 2017
- Prefix with functional - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Prefix meaning "bad" - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Start to function? - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Functional prefix - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Opposite of eu- - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Prefix with function - used 8 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.
- Count start - ONE, used 109 times
- Ab ___ (from the start) - OVO, used 63 times
- Carte start - ALA, used 52 times
- Start of MGM's motto - ARS, used 48 times
- Lord's Prayer start - OUR, used 40 times
- MGM motto start - ARS, used 40 times
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