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Similar type

Answer: ILK - 3 letters

The crossword clue "Similar type" is answered by ILK, a 3-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.

The answer

ILK

ILK

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

8Times used
7Distinct years
2025Most recent year
5Publications

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 5 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
  • Of the same ___ (similar) - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
  • Sort or type - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
  • Genre - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
  • 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

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