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ESSEN

5 letters - 5 clues in this pilot

ESSEN is a 5-letter crossword answer with 5 clues in this pilot. Across those clues it has 562 usages in the xd corpus, most recently in 2026. Every figure on this page comes from the pilot data itself.

The answer

ESSEN

ESSEN

5Letters
5Clues in pilot
562Combined xd usages
2026Most recent year

Combined usages add the xd usage counts of every clue below. Frequency figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Every clue for ESSEN in this pilot

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  • Ruhr Valley city - used 155 times across 34 distinct years, most recently in 2026
  • Ruhr city - used 141 times across 53 distinct years, most recently in 2024
  • German steel city - used 97 times across 29 distinct years, most recently in 2026
  • German industrial city - used 91 times across 38 distinct years, most recently in 2025
  • City on the Ruhr - used 78 times across 30 distinct years, most recently in 2025

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