Root word
The crossword clue "Root word" is answered by ETYMON, a 6-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2001. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ETYMON
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ETYMON answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2001. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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