Poetic measure
The crossword clue "Poetic measure" is answered by IAMB, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 6 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 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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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
- Kind of poetic foot - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Foot in a line - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- 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.
- Land measure - ACRE, used 276 times
- Poetic tributes - ODES, used 140 times
- Farmland measure - ACRE, used 125 times
- Hebrew measure - OMER, used 108 times
- Farm measure - ACRE, used 75 times
- Poetic contraction. - NEER, used 70 times
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