Spurious
The crossword clue "Spurious" is answered by FALSE, a 5-letter entry. Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1952. 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
FALSE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FALSE answer page.
Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1952. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for FALSE
Every other clue in this collection answered by FALSE, most used first.
- Untrue - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
- Bogus - used 35 times, most recently in 2025
- Not true - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Disloyal - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Erroneous - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
- Deceitful - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Quiz answer - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
- Test answer - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
- Treacherous - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
- F on a test - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Inaccurate - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Trumped-up - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
- Incorrect - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Not so - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Perfidious - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- Not factual - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Unfaithful - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Deceptive - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
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.
- Spurious. - BOGUS, used 9 times
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