Broke ground
The crossword clue "Broke ground" is answered by HOED, a 4-letter entry. Used 14 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HOED answer page.
Used 14 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for HOED
Every other clue in this collection answered by HOED, most used first.
- Did some weeding - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
- Worked the soil - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Tackled weeds - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Cultivated - used 12 times, most recently in 2010
- Did some gardening - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Broke new ground? - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Worked in the garden - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
- Worked the garden - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Did garden work - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Did groundbreaking work - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
- Did some garden work - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Broke ground, in a way - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Did a garden chore - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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.
- Get __ the ground floor - INON, used 81 times
- "If it __ broke . . ." - AINT, used 68 times
- Swampy ground - MIRE, used 49 times
- Ground grain - MEAL, used 36 times
- "___ ain't broke ..." - IFIT, used 34 times
- Hit the ground - ALIT, used 26 times
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