Informal greeting
The crossword clue "Informal greeting" is answered by HOWDO, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
HOWDO
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HOWDO answer page.
Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for HOWDO
Every other clue in this collection answered by HOWDO, most used first.
- Folksy greeting - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Hawaiian greeting - ALOHA, used 141 times
- Island greeting - ALOHA, used 98 times
- Luau greeting - ALOHA, used 85 times
- Maui greeting - ALOHA, used 50 times
- Greeting - HELLO, used 45 times
- Informal language - SLANG, used 42 times
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