Telephone greeting

The answer

HELLO

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

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for HELLO

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

• Conversation starter - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
• Greeting - used 45 times, most recently in 2015
• "Greetings!" - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Nametag word - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• "Anybody home?" - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• "You there?" - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
• Phone greeting - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
• Name-tag word - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
• Cry of surprise - used 13 times, most recently in 2015
• "__, Dolly!" - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
• Word of greeting - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• "Hi!" - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• "What have we here!" - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
• Common greeting - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Phone answerer's word - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• Nametag greeting - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• Pick-up line? - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Exclamation of surprise. - used 7 times, most recently in 1961
• Opening remark? - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
• Welcoming word - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Word of welcome - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Conversation opener - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Greeting for Dolly - used 6 times, most recently in 2003
• Greeting word - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Phone call starter - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Ring response - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
• Word on a nametag - used 6 times, most recently in 2009

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.

• Hawaiian greeting - ALOHA, used 141 times
• Island greeting - ALOHA, used 98 times
• Luau greeting - ALOHA, used 85 times
• Maui greeting - ALOHA, used 50 times
• Online greeting - ECARD, used 23 times
• Digital greeting - ECARD, used 21 times

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