Of the same ___ (similar)

The answer

ILK

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

Used 20 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ILK

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

• Sort - used 282 times, most recently in 2026
• Kind - used 192 times, most recently in 2026
• Type - used 159 times, most recently in 2026
• Variety - used 109 times, most recently in 2026
• Category - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Class - used 35 times, most recently in 2024
• Breed - used 24 times, most recently in 2021
• Family - used 20 times, most recently in 2023
• Sort or type - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Genre - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Similar type - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Sort or kind - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• Stripe - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Type or kind - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• Type or sort - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Kind or type - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Type, derogatorily - used 6 times, most recently in 2021

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
• In the style of - ALA, used 784 times
• Under the weather - ILL, used 536 times
• "___ the season ..." - TIS, used 398 times
• To the ___ degree - NTH, used 389 times
• In the manner of - ALA, used 367 times

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