Dostoyevsky title character

The answer

IDIOT

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

Used 16 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2024. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for IDIOT

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

• Blockhead - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• Fool - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
• Knucklehead - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
• Dunderhead - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
• Bonehead - used 25 times, most recently in 2023
• Doofus - used 24 times, most recently in 2024
• Dostoyevsky's "The ___" - used 24 times, most recently in 2014
• Numskull - used 23 times, most recently in 2022
• Moron - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Nincompoop - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
• Dostoyevsky novel, with "The" - used 16 times, most recently in 2022
• Dimwit - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
• Numbskull - used 15 times, most recently in 2021
• __-proof (easy to operate) - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
• Goose. - used 12 times, most recently in 1967
• Lamebrain - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Birdbrain - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
• -- box (TV) - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Simpleton - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Ninny - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
• Jerk - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• Chowderhead - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Dolt - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Dope - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Dummkopf - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Dummy - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Featherbrain - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• Nitwit - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Pinhead - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Bozo - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Chucklehead - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Dunce - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• __ savant - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
• Village figure? - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Blithering fool - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Dumbbell - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Half-wit - used 6 times, most recently in 2015

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.

• Turkish title - PASHA, used 69 times
• Macbeth's title - THANE, used 63 times
• Title holder - OWNER, used 57 times
• Group character - ETHOS, used 53 times
• Palindromic title - MADAM, used 51 times
• Dickens title starter - ATALE, used 45 times

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