If not

The answer

ELSE

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

Used 199 times across 59 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 25 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this pilot link to their own answer page.

• UNLESS (13 uses in xd)
• ORELSE (7 uses in xd)
• OTHERWISE (5 uses in xd)
• ELYSE (1 uses in xd)
• OR (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for ELSE

Every other clue in this pilot answered by ELSE, most used first.

• Otherwise - used 1,353 times, most recently in 2026
• "If all ___ fails ..." - used 345 times, most recently in 2026
• "What ___ is new?" - used 224 times, most recently in 2026
• "So what ___ is new?" - used 221 times, most recently in 2026
• Other - used 190 times, most recently in 2025
• Alternatively - used 178 times, most recently in 2026
• "Anything ___?" - used 119 times, most recently in 2026
• "What ___ can I say?" - used 116 times, most recently in 2026
• Besides that - used 106 times, most recently in 2026
• Differently - used 94 times, most recently in 2025
• Ultimatum ender - used 94 times, most recently in 2026
• Ultimatum word - used 77 times, most recently in 2026

Related clues

Pilot clues 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.

• Not fooled by - ONTO, used 444 times
• Not as much - LESS, used 378 times
• Not "fer" - AGIN, used 181 times
• Not pro - ANTI, used 172 times
• Not so much - LESS, used 171 times
• Not doing anything - IDLE, used 165 times

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