Short term of endearment

The answer

HON

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HON answer page.

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1958. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for HON

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

• Sweetie - used 271 times, most recently in 2026
• Darlin' - used 56 times, most recently in 2025
• Sweetie pie - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
• Term of endearment - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
• Dearie - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
• Babe - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Snookums - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
• Sweetheart - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Sweetums - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Sugar - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Sugar substitute? - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Sweets - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Luv - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Dear - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Bae - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Toots - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Darling - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Doll - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Pet name - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
• Cupcake - used 7 times, most recently in 2023

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