"How did ___ that happen?"

The answer

ILET

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ILET answer page.

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2023. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ILET

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

• "__ a Song Go ..." - used 77 times, most recently in 2006
• "___ a Song Go Out of My Heart" - used 21 times, most recently in 2022
• "Before ___ you go ..." - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ a song go out..." - used 10 times, most recently in 2007
• Belinda Carlisle's "Should ___ You In?" - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• ABBA's "___ the Music Speak" - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• "Okay if __ myself out?" - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
• "___ Her Go" (Frankie Laine song) - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
• "Sorry if __ you down" - used 6 times, most recently in 2010

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.

• For fear that - LEST, used 503 times
• In that case - IFSO, used 231 times
• "___ Well That Ends Well" - ALLS, used 158 times
• "How sweet ___!" - ITIS, used 140 times
• At that time - THEN, used 134 times
• "That makes sense" - ISEE, used 132 times

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