1/36 of a yard

The answer

INCH

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

Used 14 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for INCH

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

• Foot part - used 94 times, most recently in 2026
• Part of a foot - used 82 times, most recently in 2026
• Move slowly - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
• Foot fraction - used 40 times, most recently in 2025
• Creep (along) - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Creep - used 30 times, most recently in 2023
• Ruler division - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• 1/12 of a foot - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Yardstick division - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Rainfall measure - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
• Ruler unit - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• 2.54 centimeters - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Move very slowly - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Fraction of a foot - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Snowfall measure - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Twelfth of a foot - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Snowfall unit - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
• Kind of worm - used 11 times, most recently in 2006
• One-twelfth of a foot - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Linear measure - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• Narrow margin - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
• Progress slowly - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Ruler marking - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Mark on a ruler - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Nine ___ Nails - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Advance slowly - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Barely move - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• Measure of length - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Rainfall unit - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Short distance - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• "Hedwig and the Angry ___" - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Small measure - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• About 2.5 centimeters - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Crawl (along) - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Foot division - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Foot twelfth - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Move bit by bit - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Move slowly (along) - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Part of a yard - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Rainfall measurement - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Yardstick unit - used 6 times, most recently in 2023

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.

• Yard sale caveat - ASIS, used 49 times
• Yard tool - RAKE, used 37 times
• 100-yard race - DASH, used 22 times
• Yard divisions - FEET, used 16 times
• Yard fraction - FOOT, used 15 times
• Yard units - FEET, used 14 times

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