Short distance
The crossword clue "Short distance" is answered by INCH, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2003. 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
INCH
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the INCH answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- HOPSKIPANDAJUMP (4 uses in xd)
- ARMSLENGTH (1 uses in xd)
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
- 1/36 of a yard - used 14 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
- "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.
- At a distance - AFAR, used 294 times
- In the distance - AFAR, used 181 times
- Short skirt - MINI, used 149 times
- Off in the distance - AFAR, used 130 times
- Get ready, for short - PREP, used 123 times
- From a distance - AFAR, used 117 times
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