Real ending
The crossword clue "Real ending" is answered by ISM, a 3-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 2001. 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
ISM
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ISM answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 2001. 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
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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
- Distinctive doctrine - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Philosophy - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Belief, in brief - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Belief suffix - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Doctrine suffix - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
- Surreal ending? - used 15 times, most recently in 2019
- Dogma - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
- Belief system suffix - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Doctrinal suffix - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
- Real attachment? - used 11 times, most recently in 2016
- Tenet - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
- "Capital" ending - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
- Creed - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Ideology suffix - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Suffix with "surreal" - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Something to believe in - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Suffix with "ideal" - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- System of beliefs - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Capital attachment? - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- "Manner" attachment - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
- "Patriot" add-on - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Patriot's end? - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
- Suffix with Darwin - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- Suffix with journal - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- You can believe it - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
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.
- List-ending abbr. - ETC, used 200 times
- Superlative ending - EST, used 177 times
- Biblical verb ending - ETH, used 112 times
- Enzyme ending - ASE, used 108 times
- British verb ending - ISE, used 103 times
- Chemical ending - ENE, used 85 times
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