URL beginning

The answer

HTTP

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

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2007. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• WWW (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for HTTP

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

• URL starter - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
• URL opener - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
• Internet address starter - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Web address starter - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• URL intro - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Letters before :// - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• URL letters - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Link letters - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Start of many addresses - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• WWW address starter - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Start of a Web address - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Letters before ://www - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• URL start - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Web address start - used 7 times, most recently in 2012

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.

• From the beginning - ANEW, used 114 times
• Beginning on - ASOF, used 100 times
• Fairy tale beginning - ONCE, used 54 times
• Beginning - ASOF, used 47 times
• Dynamic beginning - AERO, used 34 times
• Logical beginning? - IDEO, used 27 times

Search the clue collection

Search by clue words or by answer, or type a pattern with the letters you have and a blank for each square you do not know. The characters _ ? . and - all work as blanks.