Greeting for a villain
The crossword clue "Greeting for a villain" is answered by HISS, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2006; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
HISS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HISS answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2006; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for HISS
Every other clue in this collection answered by HISS, most used first.
- Greet the villain - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
- Snake's sound - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
- Radiator sound - used 43 times, most recently in 2025
- Snake sound - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Sound of disapproval - used 23 times, most recently in 2024
- Sibilant sound - used 20 times, most recently in 2020
- Snake's warning - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Angry cat's sound - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Blow off steam? - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
- Cat's warning - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Sound from an angry cat - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Show displeasure - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Vent sound - used 10 times, most recently in 2014
- Boo's partner - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Angry cat's warning - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Sound like a snake - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Bad reception? - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Sound of a snake - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- "Boo" accompaniment - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Express disapproval - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
- Serenade the villain - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
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.
- For fear that - LEST, used 503 times
- Change for a five - ONES, used 272 times
- "What's ___ for me?" - INIT, used 264 times
- "Othello" villain - IAGO, used 256 times
- Shrek, for one - OGRE, used 244 times
- Ready for business - OPEN, used 184 times
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