Three of a kind.

The answer

III

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

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2007; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• TRIO (10 uses in xd)
• DREI (8 uses in xd)
• TRIAD (4 uses in xd)
• TRIPLETS (2 uses in xd)
• CATEGORYSORTTYPE (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for III

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

• Sundial numeral - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
• Three, on a sundial - used 62 times, most recently in 2026
• Clock numeral - used 38 times, most recently in 2024
• Jr.'s son - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Junior's junior - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
• Midafternoon, on a sundial - used 23 times, most recently in 2020
• Sundial hour - used 23 times, most recently in 2015
• Sundial number - used 22 times, most recently in 2022
• The Third - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• "East" on a grandfather clock - used 20 times, most recently in 2021
• Jr.'s jr. - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Midafternoon, in a way - used 17 times, most recently in 2015
• "Rocky ___" - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Three, on a grandfather clock - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• "Richard ___" - used 16 times, most recently in 2016
• Square root of IX - used 16 times, most recently in 2020
• Jr.'s junior - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
• Sundial reading - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Son of a son - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Three. - used 12 times, most recently in 1962
• Sequel's sequel - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
• Three, in Roman numerals - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Sundial figure - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Sundial three - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• XXX / X - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• 3, on a sundial - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Namath's Super Bowl - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• Half of VI - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Second-sequel indicator - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Big Ben's three - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Golfer Davis Love ___ - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
• Only Super Bowl won by the Jets - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Rightmost number on a grandfather clock - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Roman trio - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Sequel-to-a-sequel designation - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Shakespeare's "Richard ___" - used 6 times, most recently in 2020

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.

• Kind - ILK, used 192 times
• Prefix meaning "three" - TRI, used 91 times
• "What Kind of Fool __?" - AMI, used 90 times
• Three, in Rome - TRE, used 82 times
• Three: Prefix. - TRI, used 79 times
• Kind of trip - EGO, used 69 times

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