"___ do you do?"

The answer

HOW

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

Used 17 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for HOW

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

• "In what way?" - used 93 times, most recently in 2026
• By what means - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Explanation - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
• Question of method - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• A question of method - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• "And ___!" - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Questioning word - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• "__ about that!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• A question of procedure - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• In what manner - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• Reporter's query - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
• A question of technique - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• "___ dare you!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Question of methodology - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• ___-to - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• "You bet!" - YES, used 166 times
• "What did I tell you?" - SEE, used 155 times
• Verb for you - ARE, used 139 times
• "Didn't I tell you?" - SEE, used 137 times
• "Shop ___ you drop" - TIL, used 123 times
• "You ___ here" - ARE, used 119 times

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