Chosen number?
The crossword clue "Chosen number?" is answered by FEW, a 3-letter entry. Used 16 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
FEW
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FEW answer page.
Used 16 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for FEW
Every other clue in this collection answered by FEW, most used first.
- Not many - used 155 times, most recently in 2026
- Hardly any - used 91 times, most recently in 2026
- Handful - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
- Not very many - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Small number - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Not a lot - used 20 times, most recently in 2023
- "A ___ Good Men" - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
- ___ and far between - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Handful of - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Limited number - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Scarcely any - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Small amount - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- A mere handful - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
- A handful - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- Sprinkling - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- The chosen? - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
- Not a lot of - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- A handful of - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Less than some - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
- Not too many - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- "The ___, the proud, the Marines" - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
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.
- Hole number - PAR, used 88 times
- "The loneliest number" - ONE, used 66 times
- Whatever number - ANY, used 52 times
- Well-chosen - APT, used 50 times
- Course number - PAR, used 37 times
- Hydrogen's atomic number - ONE, used 35 times
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