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GEAR

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GEAR answer page.

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1990. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for GEAR

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

• Equipment - used 306 times, most recently in 2026
• Paraphernalia - used 111 times, most recently in 2026
• Apparatus - used 26 times, most recently in 2023
• Bike part - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Reverse, e.g. - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
• Stuff - used 22 times, most recently in 2021
• Tackle - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Toothed wheel - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Cogwheel - used 15 times, most recently in 2021
• Transmission component - used 13 times, most recently in 2014
• Transmission part - used 13 times, most recently in 2014
• Drive or reverse - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
• Transmission selection - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Stick shift selection - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Machine part - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Trappings. - used 9 times, most recently in 2005
• Camping stuff - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Harness. - used 8 times, most recently in 1965
• Machine part with teeth - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Stickshift selection - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Things - used 8 times, most recently in 2008
• Camping equipment - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Clockwork part - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Shifter's selection - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Wheel with teeth - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Belongings - used 6 times, most recently in 2007
• Clockwork component - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Kind of shift - used 6 times, most recently in 2004
• Reverse, for one - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
• Watch part - 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.

• First-rate - AONE, used 274 times
• First place - EDEN, used 215 times
• First-class - AONE, used 143 times
• First name in scat - ELLA, used 140 times
• Reverse - UNDO, used 139 times
• First victim - ABEL, used 131 times

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