Particle with a charge

The answer

ION

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

Used 24 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 17 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ION

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

• Charged particle - used 622 times, most recently in 2026
• Charged bit - used 243 times, most recently in 2026
• Charged atom - used 169 times, most recently in 2026
• Lithium-___ battery - used 100 times, most recently in 2026
• It's not free of charge - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Cyclotron bit - used 40 times, most recently in 2025
• It's charged - used 40 times, most recently in 2025
• Atom with a charge - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Electrified particle - used 37 times, most recently in 2018
• Cyclotron particle - used 35 times, most recently in 2025
• Saturn model - used 35 times, most recently in 2014
• + or - particle - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Bit of physics - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Physics particle - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Solar wind particle - used 26 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• Charge - FEE, used 214 times
• Service charge - FEE, used 186 times
• With it - HIP, used 149 times
• Prefix with center - EPI, used 134 times
• Work with - USE, used 117 times
• Prefix with natal - NEO, used 100 times

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