Before, before
The crossword clue "Before, before" is answered by ERE, a 3-letter entry. Used 97 times across 29 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 16 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the pilot data itself.
The answer
ERE
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ERE answer page.
Used 97 times across 29 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 16 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.
- AFORE (3 uses in xd)
Other clues for ERE
Every other clue in this pilot answered by ERE, most used first.
- Before - used 733 times, most recently in 2026
- Before, poetically - used 277 times, most recently in 2026
- Afore - used 244 times, most recently in 2026
- Poetic preposition - used 230 times, most recently in 2026
- Bard's "before" - used 218 times, most recently in 2026
- Before, in poetry - used 194 times, most recently in 2026
- Prior to - used 173 times, most recently in 2026
- Before, in verse - used 148 times, most recently in 2026
- Before, in poems - used 138 times, most recently in 2026
- "... ___ he drove out of sight" - used 114 times, most recently in 2025
- Palindromic preposition - used 111 times, most recently in 2026
- Before, to Byron - used 108 times, most recently in 2025
- Before, to bards - used 103 times, most recently in 2026
- Before, of yore - used 102 times, most recently in 2026
- Poet's "before" - used 82 times, most recently in 2026
- Poetic "before" - used 81 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.
- Before now - AGO, used 273 times
- Night before - EVE, used 235 times
- Letters before an alias - AKA, used 194 times
- Letter before omega - PSI, used 132 times
- Letter before tee - ESS, used 124 times
- Sign before Virgo - LEO, used 102 times
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