Euro predecessor

The answer

FRANC

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FRANC answer page.

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• ECU (18 uses in xd)
• LIRA (9 uses in xd)
• PESETA (7 uses in xd)
• LIRE (2 uses in xd)
• DMARK (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for FRANC

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

• Swiss currency - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Swiss money - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Swiss coin - used 16 times, most recently in 2020
• French bread? - used 10 times, most recently in 2002
• Old French bread? - used 10 times, most recently in 2009
• Swiss capital - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
• Former French currency - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• 100 centimes - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Old French currency - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Old French money - used 7 times, most recently in 2019

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• Windows predecessor - MSDOS, used 33 times
• Jackie's predecessor - MAMIE, used 27 times
• Polk's predecessor - TYLER, used 21 times
• Stalin's predecessor - LENIN, used 20 times
• Euro fractions - CENTS, used 18 times

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