Language quirk
The crossword clue "Language quirk" is answered by IDIOM, a 5-letter entry. Used 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2011; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
IDIOM
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the IDIOM answer page.
Used 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2011; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 7 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
- 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
- Dialect of a region - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- 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.
- African language group - BANTU, used 78 times
- Informal language - SLANG, used 42 times
- Language of Iran - FARSI, used 36 times
- African language - BANTU, used 33 times
- Caesar's language - LATIN, used 29 times
- Sri Lankan language - TAMIL, used 28 times
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