They're all charged up

The answer

IONS

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

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for IONS

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

• Charged particles - used 256 times, most recently in 2026
• Charged atoms - used 107 times, most recently in 2026
• Charged bits - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Electrified particles - used 30 times, most recently in 2011
• Accelerator particles - used 25 times, most recently in 2021
• Cyclotron particles - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• They're charged - used 17 times, most recently in 2022
• They're not free of charge - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Cyclotron bits - used 15 times, most recently in 2019
• They have their pluses and minuses - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• Atomic particles - used 12 times, most recently in 2016
• Atoms with charges - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Particles - used 10 times, most recently in 2000
• They carry a charge - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Atoms with a charge - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Electrolysis particles - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Free electrons - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
• + or - particles - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• They're never free of charge - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Charge carriers - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Charged items - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Electrolyte particles - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Saturn models - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• Electrically charged particles - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Physics particles - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Plasma particles - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Smoke detector output - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Charged molecules - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Electrically charged atoms - used 6 times, most recently in 2012

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• "If all ___ fails ..." - ELSE, used 345 times
• All over again - ANEW, used 269 times
• All there - SANE, used 134 times
• Prefix meaning "all" - OMNI, used 119 times
• All tied up - EVEN, used 105 times
• "___ for All Seasons" - AMAN, used 98 times

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