Polite chaps
The crossword clue "Polite chaps" is answered by GENTS, a 5-letter entry. Used 13 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2012. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
GENTS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GENTS answer page.
Used 13 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2012. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for GENTS
Every other clue in this collection answered by GENTS, most used first.
- Chaps - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Fellows - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Fellas - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Ladies' men - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Loo sign - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- Blokes - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Nice guys - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Chivalrous chaps - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Mannerly men - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Well-mannered guys - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Decent chaps - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Well-bred Londoners - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
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.
- Polite refusal - NOSIR, used 86 times
- Polite denial - NOSIR, used 39 times
- Polite - CIVIL, used 37 times
- Less polite - RUDER, used 29 times
- More polite - NICER, used 21 times
- Polite address - MADAM, used 20 times
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