Upper echelon
The crossword clue "Upper echelon" is answered by ELITE, a 5-letter entry. Used 26 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
ELITE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ELITE answer page.
Used 26 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ELITE
Every other clue in this collection answered by ELITE, most used first.
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- Upper crust - used 170 times, most recently in 2026
- Select group - used 108 times, most recently in 2026
- Best of the best - used 107 times, most recently in 2026
- Privileged group - used 77 times, most recently in 2026
- Choice - used 65 times, most recently in 2025
- Top-tier - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
- Chosen few - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
- Typewriter type. - used 44 times, most recently in 2008
- A-list - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
- Top-drawer - used 41 times, most recently in 2019
- High society - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Privileged few - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Type size - used 31 times, most recently in 2016
- Select few - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
- High-society group - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Creme de la creme - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
- Type of type - used 24 times, most recently in 2017
- A-list group - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Superior group - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- High-class - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Upper body - TORSO, used 50 times
- Upper regions of space - ETHER, used 31 times
- Stiff-upper-lip type - STOIC, used 23 times
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