Brontë governess

The answer

EYRE

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

Used 41 times across 21 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 9 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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• AGNESGREY (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for EYRE

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

• Brontë heroine - used 146 times, most recently in 2026
• "Jane ___" - used 91 times, most recently in 2026
• Bronte's Jane - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
• Fictional Jane - used 47 times, most recently in 2024
• Jane of fiction - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
• Literary Jane - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
• Bronte heroine Jane - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• "Jane ___" (Charlotte Brontë novel) - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Literary governess Jane - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Rochester's love - used 33 times, most recently in 2021
• Fictional governess - used 28 times, most recently in 2021

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.

• Otherwise - ELSE, used 1,353 times
• Give off - EMIT, used 874 times
• At any time - EVER, used 696 times
• Therefore - ERGO, used 684 times
• Gaelic - ERSE, used 679 times
• Raison d'___ - ETRE, used 658 times

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