True thing
The crossword clue "True thing" is answered by FACT, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
FACT
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FACT answer page.
Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for FACT
Every other clue in this collection answered by FACT, most used first.
- Datum - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
- True statement - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- It's true - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Almanac tidbit - used 26 times, most recently in 2019
- Fiction's opposite - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Reality - used 22 times, most recently in 2020
- Truth - used 21 times, most recently in 2024
- Actuality - used 18 times, most recently in 2000
- It's the truth - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
- Bit of trivia - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- "Is that a ___?" - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Almanac entry - used 11 times, most recently in 2017
- Bit of truth - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Matter-of-___ - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Sure thing - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
- Almanac bit - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Piece of data - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
- Verifiable statement - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- "As a matter of ___ ... " - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Fiction alternative - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Indisputable thing - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- It's undeniable - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Opposite of fiction - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Thing - ITEM, used 153 times
- Person, place or thing - NOUN, used 111 times
- "And another thing ..." - ALSO, used 97 times
- "Do the Right Thing" pizzeria - SALS, used 71 times
- Forbidden thing - NONO, used 69 times
- "Assuming that's true ..." - IFSO, used 63 times
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