Dialect of a region

The answer

IDIOM

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the IDIOM answer page.

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for IDIOM

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

• Figure of speech - used 135 times, most recently in 2026
• Dialect - used 34 times, most recently in 2021
• "Going to the dogs," e.g. - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Manner of speaking - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• "Talk turkey," e.g. - used 15 times, most recently in 2015
• Turn of phrase - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Translator's challenge - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Language quirk - used 11 times, most recently in 2011
• Common expression - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• "Eat crow" or "talk turkey" - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Language peculiarity - used 9 times, most recently in 2011
• Jargon - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
• "Cat got your tongue?" e.g. - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Expression - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• "In the doghouse," e.g. - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Colloquialism - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Figurative expression - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Hard-to-translate phrase - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Non-literal expression - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Nonliteral expression - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• Ancient Greek region - IONIA, used 59 times
• Ancient Aegean region - IONIA, used 44 times
• Of a region - AREAL, used 39 times
• Ancient region of Asia Minor - IONIA, used 37 times
• Alpine region - TIROL, used 25 times
• Asia Minor region - IONIA, used 25 times

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