Border lake

The answer

ERIE

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

Used 33 times across 20 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1965. It appears in 8 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.

• TAHOE (5 uses in xd)
• ONTARIO (3 uses in xd)
• HURON (2 uses in xd)

Other clues for ERIE

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

• Pennsylvania port - used 345 times, most recently in 2026
• A Great Lake - used 316 times, most recently in 2026
• One of the Great Lakes - used 258 times, most recently in 2026
• Buffalo's lake - used 251 times, most recently in 2026
• Cleveland's lake - used 244 times, most recently in 2026
• Toledo's lake - used 197 times, most recently in 2026
• New York canal - used 150 times, most recently in 2026
• Great Lake - used 112 times, most recently in 2024
• Buffalo's county - used 109 times, most recently in 2026
• Canal of song - used 90 times, most recently in 2026
• Part of HOMES - used 87 times, most recently in 2026
• Pennsylvania city - used 73 times, most recently in 2022
• Shallowest Great Lake - used 72 times, most recently in 2026
• Great Lakes port - used 63 times, most recently in 2026
• Southernmost Great Lake - used 62 times, most recently in 2026
• Lake near Buffalo - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
• Ashtabula's lake - used 56 times, most recently in 2024
• Huron neighbor - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
• Sandusky's lake - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
• One of HOMES - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• Keystone State port - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Lake near Niagara Falls - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
• Clinton's canal - used 39 times, most recently in 2016
• The "E" in HOMES - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Buffalo's Great Lake - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• "Fifteen Miles on the ___ Canal" - used 31 times, most recently in 2017
• Lackawanna's lake - used 30 times, most recently in 2017
• Shallowest of the Great Lakes - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• War of 1812 port - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Great Lake with the shortest name - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Sal's canal - used 29 times, most recently in 2018
• The "E" of HOMES - used 28 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.

• Border on - ABUT, used 472 times
• Share a border with - ABUT, used 152 times
• Mountain lake - TARN, used 146 times
• City near Lake Tahoe - RENO, used 105 times
• Great Salt Lake state - UTAH, used 87 times
• Salt Lake City team - UTES, used 73 times

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