"___ tree falls in the forest ..."

The answer

IFA

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the IFA answer page.

Used 16 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for IFA

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• "-- tree falls ..." - used 62 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ man answers ..." - used 19 times, most recently in 2014
• "___ body meet..." - used 15 times, most recently in 2021
• "... ___ woodchuck could chuck wood?" - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ body meet a body . . . " - used 7 times, most recently in 1996
• "___ Man Answers" (1962 film) - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• "__ picture paints ..." - used 7 times, most recently in 2014

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.

• In the past - AGO, used 1,064 times
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• Under the weather - ILL, used 536 times
• Shade tree - ELM, used 437 times
• "___ the season ..." - TIS, used 398 times
• To the ___ degree - NTH, used 389 times

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