Beyond unusual

The answer

EERIE

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

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 2007. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for EERIE

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

• Spooky - used 434 times, most recently in 2026
• Spine-tingling - used 256 times, most recently in 2026
• Weird - used 186 times, most recently in 2026
• Uncanny - used 157 times, most recently in 2026
• Creepy - used 153 times, most recently in 2026
• Hair-raising - used 94 times, most recently in 2026
• Unsettling - used 74 times, most recently in 2026
• Haunting - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
• Spine-chilling - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
• Strange - used 61 times, most recently in 2025
• Chilling - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
• Ghostly - used 53 times, most recently in 2022
• Unearthly - used 50 times, most recently in 2024
• Like a haunted house - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Macabre - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
• Mysterious - used 40 times, most recently in 2023
• Chill-inducing - used 35 times, most recently in 2024
• Otherworldly - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Bone-chilling - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Like some coincidences - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Causing goose bumps - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Eldritch - used 27 times, most recently in 2022
• Goosebump-inducing - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Out of this world - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Frightfully strange - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
• Like Poe tales - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• Very strange - used 21 times, most recently in 2020
• Bizarre - used 20 times, most recently in 2023
• Like "The X-Files" - used 19 times, most recently in 2019
• Weird and scary - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Causing the willies - used 18 times, most recently in 2021
• A la King? - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Like freakish coincidences - used 16 times, most recently in 2018
• Like ghost stories - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Shiver-inducing - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Like "The Twilight Zone" - used 15 times, most recently in 2019
• Really strange - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
• Unnatural - used 14 times, most recently in 2009
• Ghastly strange - used 13 times, most recently in 2013
• Goosebumps-inducing - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Supernatural - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
• Hauntingly strange - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Hitchcockian - used 12 times, most recently in 2018
• Willies-inducing - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
• Goosebump-raising - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
• Mysteriously spooky - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
• Spectral - used 11 times, most recently in 2016
• Chilling, in a way - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
• Frightening - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Inspiring fear. - used 10 times, most recently in 2010
• Like haunted houses - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Like a Stephen King novel - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Unexplainable - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Weirdly strange - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Almost too coincidental - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Causing goosebumps - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Like a graveyard at midnight - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Like a King novel - used 8 times, most recently in 2007
• Spookily strange - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Unsettlingly strange - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Weirdly spooky - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Causing the creeps - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Inspiring dread - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
• Like Halloween sounds - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Like Poe stories - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Like Poe's prose - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
• Like Stephen King novels - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Like things that go bump in the night - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Scary - used 7 times, most recently in 2002
• Stranger than strange - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Unnerving - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Unworldly - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
• Like a Poe tale - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Like many a Poe tale - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• More than odd - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Peculiar - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Phantasmal - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
• Preternatural - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• Strange and scary - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Weirder than weird - used 6 times, most recently in 2012

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.

• More unusual - ODDER, used 68 times
• More unusual - RARER, used 61 times
• Wreck beyond repair - TOTAL, used 26 times
• ___ and beyond - ABOVE, used 24 times
• "It's __ Unusual Day" - AMOST, used 24 times
• Beyond the fringe - OUTRE, used 23 times

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