Dissertation
The crossword clue "Dissertation" is answered by ESSAY, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2005; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ESSAY
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ESSAY answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2005; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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- TRACTATE (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for ESSAY
Every other clue in this collection answered by ESSAY, most used first.
- Opinion piece - used 88 times, most recently in 2026
- School paper - used 82 times, most recently in 2026
- English class assignment - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
- Op-ed piece - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
- Writing assignment - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
- Think piece - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Attempt - used 36 times, most recently in 2020
- English assignment - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- School assignment - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- College application part - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Test type - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Try - used 21 times, most recently in 2018
- Composition - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
- Prose piece - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Swift work - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
- Bacon bit? - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
- Blue book filler - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
- English exam finale, often - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Lamb product - used 15 times, most recently in 2018
- Bacon piece - used 14 times, most recently in 2020
- Thoreau piece - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Emerson product - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
- English composition - used 13 times, most recently in 2015
- Theme - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
- "In this ___ I will ..." - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Lamb piece - used 12 times, most recently in 2018
- Literary work - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Test format - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Bacon product - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Magazine piece - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
- Piece of Bacon? - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- "Civil Disobedience," e.g. - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
- Homework assignment - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Op-ed offering - used 10 times, most recently in 2012
- Short opinion piece - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Writing class assignment - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Written assignment - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- College applicant's composition - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Emerson work - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
- Op-ed piece, e.g. - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Common college application requirement - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Lengthy test answer - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Part of a college application - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Blue-book composition - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Emerson piece - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- English homework - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Lamb specialty - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
- Lamb work - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Literary piece. - used 7 times, most recently in 1974
- Piece of Lamb? - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Piece of writing - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- The New Yorker piece - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Written composition - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Endeavor - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- "How I Spent My Summer Vacation," maybe - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
- Position paper - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- School composition - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Student's composition - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Trial. - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Writing contest entry - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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