Fit for sainthood

The answer

HOLY

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HOLY answer page.

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for HOLY

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

• Sacred - used 122 times, most recently in 2026
• Sanctified - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
• Consecrated - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
• Worthy of worship - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Blessed - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
• Divine - used 12 times, most recently in 2012
• Saintly - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
• Devout - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
• Sacrosanct - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
• "___ cow!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• "Monty Python and the ___ Grail" - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• "___ mackerel!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• "___ smokes!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• "O ___ Night" - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Pious - used 6 times, most recently in 2017

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
• Shrek, for one - OGRE, used 244 times
• Ready for business - OPEN, used 184 times
• Look for - SEEK, used 172 times

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