Beliefs, for short

The answer

ISMS

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

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ISMS

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

• Doctrines - used 156 times, most recently in 2026
• Beliefs - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
• Schools of thought - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Distinctive doctrines - used 33 times, most recently in 2015
• Belief systems - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Ideologies - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Theories - used 28 times, most recently in 2018
• Philosophies - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
• Doctrines, informally - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Tenets - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
• Belief systems, for short - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Distinctive theories - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
• Dogmas - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Things to believe in - used 6 times, most recently in 2019

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.

• For fear that - LEST, used 503 times
• Change for a five - ONES, used 272 times
• "What's ___ for me?" - INIT, used 264 times
• Shrek, for one - OGRE, used 244 times
• Ready for business - OPEN, used 184 times
• Look for - SEEK, used 172 times

Search the clue collection

Search by clue words or by answer, or type a pattern with the letters you have and a blank for each square you do not know. The characters _ ? . and - all work as blanks.