AC or DC

The answer

ELEC

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ELEC answer page.

Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ELEC

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

• A util. - used 33 times, most recently in 2016
• Util. bill - used 28 times, most recently in 2023
• Part of GE - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• Certain util. - used 17 times, most recently in 2022
• Utility abbr. - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
• Monthly util. bill - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Basic util. - used 13 times, most recently in 2016
• Kind of engr. - used 12 times, most recently in 2014
• TVA output - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
• TVA product - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• It's measured in kWh - used 9 times, most recently in 2009
• Type of engr. - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Util. supply - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Household util. - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Monopoly util. - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• Monthly pmt. - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• Util. bill item - used 6 times, most recently in 2018

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.

• Otherwise - ELSE, used 1,353 times
• Give off - EMIT, used 874 times
• At any time - EVER, used 696 times
• Therefore - ERGO, used 684 times
• Gaelic - ERSE, used 679 times
• Raison d'___ - ETRE, used 658 times

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