Nincompoop
The crossword clue "Nincompoop" is answered by IDIOT, a 5-letter entry. Used 21 times across 18 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
IDIOT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the IDIOT answer page.
Used 21 times across 18 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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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.
- Nincompoop - SCHMO, used 12 times
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