Crossword clues - Answer
IDEA
IDEA is a 4-letter crossword answer with 9 clues in this pilot. Across those clues it has 2,410 usages in the xd corpus, most recently in 2026. Every figure on this page comes from the pilot data itself.
The answer
IDEA
IDEA
4Letters
9Clues in pilot
2,410Combined xd usages
2026Most recent year
Combined usages add the xd usage counts of every clue below. Frequency figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Every clue for IDEA in this pilot
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- Notion - used 778 times across 74 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Concept - used 422 times across 72 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Brainstorm - used 311 times across 56 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Thought - used 225 times across 68 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Inkling - used 160 times across 53 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Brainchild - used 157 times across 45 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Creative thought - used 155 times across 25 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Creative spark - used 109 times across 27 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- "What's the big ___?" - used 93 times across 29 distinct years, most recently in 2026
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