Foot in a line
The crossword clue "Foot in a line" is answered by IAMB, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2019. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
IAMB
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the IAMB answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2019. It appears in 4 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.
- IAMBUS (2 uses in xd)
Other clues for IAMB
Every other clue in this collection answered by IAMB, most used first.
- Poetic foot - used 104 times, most recently in 2026
- Metrical foot - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
- Poet's foot - used 21 times, most recently in 2021
- Two-syllable foot - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
- Metric foot - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
- Shakespeare's foot - used 13 times, most recently in 2019
- Two-syllable poetic foot - used 11 times, most recently in 2017
- Poetic measure - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Kind of poetic foot - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Foot that's part of a meter - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Prosodic foot - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
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.
- Top-of-the-line - AONE, used 137 times
- Toe the line - OBEY, used 116 times
- Picket line crosser - SCAB, used 103 times
- Foot part - INCH, used 94 times
- Story line - PLOT, used 89 times
- Foot part - ARCH, used 86 times
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