Common contraction

The answer

ISNT

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

Used 29 times across 22 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1949. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• ARENT (40 uses in xd)
• IVE (36 uses in xd)
• ITS (14 uses in xd)
• HED (11 uses in xd)
• TIS (9 uses in xd)

Other clues for ISNT

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

• "___ It Romantic?" - used 132 times, most recently in 2025
• Fails to be - used 104 times, most recently in 2026
• "Money ___ everything" - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
• "Winning ___ everything" - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
• Does not exist - used 54 times, most recently in 2024
• Ain't right? - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ that special?" - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ She Lovely" - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
• Stevie Wonder's "___ She Lovely" - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• "Say it ___ so!" - used 29 times, most recently in 2019
• "__ It a Pity" - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
• "It ___ what you think!" - used 24 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• Poetic contraction. - NEER, used 70 times
• Common street name - MAIN, used 55 times
• Common French verb - ETRE, used 49 times
• Common Latin abbr. - ETAL, used 34 times
• Poetic contraction. - TWAS, used 32 times
• Common conjunctions - ANDS, used 31 times

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