Word of greeting
The crossword clue "Word of greeting" is answered by HELLO, a 5-letter entry. Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1966. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
HELLO
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HELLO answer page.
Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1966. It appears in 5 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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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
- "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
- Telephone greeting - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- 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.
- Parting word - ADIEU, used 196 times
- Hawaiian greeting - ALOHA, used 141 times
- Island greeting - ALOHA, used 98 times
- Luau greeting - ALOHA, used 85 times
- Maui greeting - ALOHA, used 50 times
- Commandment word - SHALT, used 49 times
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