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IDLE

4 letters - 6 clues in this pilot

IDLE is a 4-letter crossword answer with 6 clues in this pilot. Across those clues it has 860 usages in the xd corpus, most recently in 2026. Every figure on this page comes from the pilot data itself.

The answer

IDLE

IDLE

4Letters
6Clues in pilot
860Combined 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 IDLE in this pilot

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  • Doing nothing - used 237 times across 36 distinct years, most recently in 2026
  • Not doing anything - used 165 times across 25 distinct years, most recently in 2026
  • Inactive - used 154 times across 51 distinct years, most recently in 2026
  • Not busy - used 132 times across 32 distinct years, most recently in 2026
  • Between jobs - used 87 times across 24 distinct years, most recently in 2025
  • Just sitting around - used 85 times across 21 distinct years, most recently in 2026

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