The "e" of i.e.

The answer

EST

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EST answer page.

Used 25 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for EST

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

• Superlative suffix - used 521 times, most recently in 2026
• Ballpark fig. - used 177 times, most recently in 2026
• Superlative ending - used 177 times, most recently in 2026
• "Guinness Book" suffix - used 99 times, most recently in 2025
• "C'___ la vie!" - used 81 times, most recently in 2026
• Id ___ - used 79 times, most recently in 2026
• Approx. - used 74 times, most recently in 2026
• Part of i.e. - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
• N. Y. time - used 41 times, most recently in 1999
• Body shop fig. - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Guinness suffix - used 37 times, most recently in 2018
• Superlative finish - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Approximate fig. - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Cornerstone abbr. - used 27 times, most recently in 2022
• "To the max" indicator - used 27 times, most recently in 2015
• More than -er - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Inexact fig. - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Attendance fig., often - used 23 times, most recently in 2019

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.

• In the past - AGO, used 1,064 times
• In the style of - ALA, used 784 times
• Under the weather - ILL, used 536 times
• "___ the season ..." - TIS, used 398 times
• To the ___ degree - NTH, used 389 times
• In the manner of - ALA, used 367 times

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