Totally silly

The answer

INANE

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the INANE answer page.

Used 25 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for INANE

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

• Silly - used 305 times, most recently in 2026
• Ridiculous - used 151 times, most recently in 2026
• Foolish - used 141 times, most recently in 2026
• Pointless - used 120 times, most recently in 2026
• Nonsensical - used 114 times, most recently in 2026
• Absurd - used 95 times, most recently in 2026
• Cockamamie - used 93 times, most recently in 2026
• Senseless - used 79 times, most recently in 2026
• Laughable - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
• Fatuous - used 64 times, most recently in 2023
• Vacuous - used 56 times, most recently in 2025
• Empty - used 48 times, most recently in 2014
• Plain silly - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Mindless - used 44 times, most recently in 2022
• Vapid - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Lacking sense - used 41 times, most recently in 2025
• Ludicrous - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
• Asinine - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
• Totally absurd - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Empty-headed - used 23 times, most recently in 2023
• Silly as a goose - used 23 times, most recently in 2015

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.

• "Silly" birds - GEESE, used 37 times
• Totally - INALL, used 34 times
• Silly ones - GEESE, used 30 times
• Totally lost - ATSEA, used 27 times

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