By any chance

The answer

EVER

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

Used 35 times across 25 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1953. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for EVER

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

• At any time - used 696 times, most recently in 2026
• Always - used 362 times, most recently in 2026
• Happily ___ after - used 153 times, most recently in 2026
• At any point - used 139 times, most recently in 2026
• Eternally - used 97 times, most recently in 2026
• Constantly - used 79 times, most recently in 2026
• Even once - used 65 times, most recently in 2026
• At all times - used 63 times, most recently in 2025
• Of all time - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
• Hardly __ (rarely) - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Penultimate fairy tale word - used 47 times, most recently in 2024
• "Did you __?" - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• Perpetually - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• "Be it ___ so humble ..." - used 44 times, most recently in 2022
• Unceasingly - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Anon's partner - used 33 times, most recently in 2019
• At least once - used 27 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.

• Any day now - SOON, used 101 times
• Not any - NONE, used 89 times
• Any minute now - SOON, used 73 times
• Any time now - SOON, used 64 times
• Chance to play - TURN, used 42 times
• Second chance - REDO, used 36 times

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