Sort or type
The crossword clue "Sort or type" is answered by ILK, a 3-letter entry. Used 14 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ILK
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ILK answer page.
Used 14 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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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
- 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.
- Toothpaste type - GEL, used 102 times
- Tuna type - AHI, used 73 times
- Type measures - ENS, used 72 times
- Camera type, briefly - SLR, used 68 times
- Clumsy sort - OAF, used 65 times
- "Sort of" suffix - ISH, used 64 times
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