Any literary category

The answer

GENRE

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

Used 13 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2020. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for GENRE

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

• Category - used 64 times, most recently in 2025
• Literary category - used 34 times, most recently in 2024
• Artistic category - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
• Style - used 21 times, most recently in 2024
• Art category - used 20 times, most recently in 2020
• Kind - used 20 times, most recently in 2008
• Type - used 17 times, most recently in 2014
• Art class - used 16 times, most recently in 2017
• Film category - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Music category - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Book category - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Class - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Movie category - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Style of painting. - used 9 times, most recently in 1963
• Literary style - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Art style - used 7 times, most recently in 2013

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.

• In any way - ATALL, used 185 times
• To any extent - ATALL, used 76 times
• Literary twist - IRONY, used 58 times
• Catchall category - OTHER, used 56 times
• "__ by any other name..." - AROSE, used 49 times
• Literary device - IRONY, used 37 times

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