One of nine Muses

The answer

ERATO

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

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ERATO

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

• Muse of poetry - used 178 times, most recently in 2026
• Poetry Muse - used 94 times, most recently in 2024
• Poet's Muse - used 86 times, most recently in 2026
• Muse - used 80 times, most recently in 1996
• Muse of love poetry - used 77 times, most recently in 2026
• Muse of lyric poetry - used 77 times, most recently in 2025
• Poetic Muse - used 73 times, most recently in 2025
• One of the Muses - used 55 times, most recently in 2025
• Sister of Clio - used 54 times, most recently in 2018
• A Muse - used 52 times, most recently in 2024
• Muse with a lyre - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
• Sister of Calliope - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• Clio's sister - used 35 times, most recently in 2017
• Love poetry Muse - used 29 times, most recently in 2021
• Sister of Urania - used 28 times, most recently in 2022
• Sappho's Muse - used 24 times, most recently in 2014
• Sister of Thalia - used 24 times, most recently in 2021
• Lyre-playing Muse - used 21 times, most recently in 2022
• Calliope's sister - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
• Sister of Terpsichore - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
• Poet's inspiration - used 16 times, most recently in 2017
• A sister of Clio - used 13 times, most recently in 2013
• Sister of Euterpe - used 13 times, most recently in 2021
• Bard's muse - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Sonneteer's Muse - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
• A sister of Calliope - used 11 times, most recently in 2011
• Love poet's Muse - used 11 times, most recently in 2013
• Lyric Muse - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
• Muse of verse - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
• Muse who inspires poets - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• One of the Dryads - used 10 times, most recently in 1992
• Poets' Muse - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Bard's inspiration - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
• Daughter of Mnemosyne - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Muse for Pindar - used 8 times, most recently in 1993
• Muse for poets - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Sister of Melpomene - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• Thalia's sister - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Wordsworth's Muse - used 8 times, most recently in 2011
• Greek poetry muse - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Lyric poetry muse - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Lyrical muse - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Muse for Sappho - used 7 times, most recently in 1993
• Muse of love poems - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Muse of mime - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• Muse or Dryad - used 7 times, most recently in 1988
• Sister of Polyhymnia - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
• Urania's sister - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Greek muse - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Muse of erotic poetry - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Muse often depicted with a lyre - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• One of the nine Muses - used 6 times, most recently in 2017

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.

• One more time - AGAIN, used 115 times
• Indian, for one - OCEAN, used 70 times
• Be of one mind - AGREE, used 68 times
• Bikini, for one - ATOLL, used 66 times
• One way to read - ALOUD, used 57 times
• One of the Judds - NAOMI, used 55 times

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