Flaubert heroine

The answer

EMMA

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

Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1961. It appears in 6 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 collection link to their own answer page.

• BOVARY (6 uses in xd)

Other clues for EMMA

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

• Austen novel - used 143 times, most recently in 2026
• Jane Austen novel - used 119 times, most recently in 2026
• Madame Bovary - used 100 times, most recently in 2026
• Austen heroine - used 94 times, most recently in 2026
• Poet Lazarus - used 76 times, most recently in 2022
• Actress Thompson - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
• Jane Austen heroine - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Mme. Bovary - used 33 times, most recently in 2023
• Jane Austen classic - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
• Actress Watson - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Austen classic - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
• Oscar winner Thompson - used 20 times, most recently in 2010
• Anarchist Goldman - used 19 times, most recently in 2012
• Stone of "La La Land" - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Actress Samms - used 17 times, most recently in 2016
• Actress Stone or Watson - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Mrs. Peel of "The Avengers" - used 14 times, most recently in 2016
• Novel of 1816. - used 13 times, most recently in 1968
• Thompson of "Howards End" - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Austen's Woodhouse - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
• "Beauty and the Beast" actress Watson - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Jane Austen title - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
• Thompson of "Sense and Sensibility" - used 10 times, most recently in 2010
• Thompson of "Love Actually" - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Actress Stone - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Jane Austen title character - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Oscar-winning Thompson - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• Peel of "The Avengers" - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• Samms or Thompson - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• Soprano Eames - used 8 times, most recently in 1991
• 1996 Gwyneth Paltrow title role - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Austen work - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
• Avenger Peel - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Gwyneth Paltrow title role - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Jane Austen book - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Stone of "The Help" - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Watson of "Little Women" - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Watson of the Harry Potter films - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Actress Watson of the "Harry Potter" films - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Actress Watson or Thompson - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Austen protagonist - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Austen title - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Austen title character - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Austen's Miss Woodhouse - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Comic novel of 1815 - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• "Handsome, clever, and rich" Austen character - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• "Harry Potter" actress Watson - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
• Lazarus or Goldman - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
• Novel on which "Clueless" is based - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• Samms of "Dynasty" - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• Soprano Calvé - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
• Thompson or Samms - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Watson of "Beauty and the Beast" - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• Hardy heroine - TESS, used 280 times
• Verdi heroine - AIDA, used 151 times
• Brontë heroine - EYRE, used 146 times
• Pearl Buck heroine - OLAN, used 93 times
• "Casablanca" heroine - ILSA, used 92 times
• "The Good Earth" heroine - OLAN, used 92 times

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