Let go

The answer

FREED

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

Used 26 times across 20 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1968. It appears in 10 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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• RELEASE (37 uses in xd)
• AXED (28 uses in xd)
• AXE (23 uses in xd)
• FIRE (16 uses in xd)
• FREE (13 uses in xd)

Other clues for FREED

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

• Liberated - used 26 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• Let up - ABATE, used 154 times
• Let in - ADMIT, used 109 times
• Let up - EASED, used 91 times
• Take in or let out - ALTER, used 48 times
• Let - ALLOW, used 46 times
• Let - LEASE, used 37 times

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