Distinctive doctrine
The crossword clue "Distinctive doctrine" is answered by ISM, a 3-letter entry. Used 24 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
ISM
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ISM answer page.
Used 24 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ISM
Every other clue in this collection answered by ISM, most used first.
- Doctrine - used 328 times, most recently in 2026
- Belief - used 114 times, most recently in 2026
- School of thought - used 86 times, most recently in 2026
- Belief system - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
- Ideology - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- School-of-thought suffix - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Theory - used 27 times, most recently in 2007
- Philosophy - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
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