"Must be something ___"

The answer

IATE

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

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for IATE

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

• "Must've been something ___" - used 33 times, most recently in 2017
• "I can't believe ___ the whole thing!" - used 19 times, most recently in 2019
• "It must have been something ___" - used 12 times, most recently in 2016
• "... can't believe ___ the whole thing!" - used 10 times, most recently in 2010
• "... ___ the whole thing!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• "...believe ___ the whole thing!" - 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.

• Must have - NEED, used 172 times
• Certain something - AURA, used 65 times
• Does something - ACTS, used 55 times
• "You're something ___!" - ELSE, used 32 times
• "This must weigh ___!" - ATON, used 31 times
• Something to scratch - ITCH, used 29 times

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