Comparison words
The crossword clue "Comparison words" is answered by ISTO, a 4-letter entry. Used 17 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ISTO
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ISTO answer page.
Used 17 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 7 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.
Other clues for ISTO
Every other clue in this collection answered by ISTO, most used first.
- Analogy words - used 134 times, most recently in 2026
- Ratio words - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
- Analogy phrase - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
- Ratio phrase - used 46 times, most recently in 2023
- That ___ say. - used 43 times, most recently in 2025
- "That's all there ___ it!" - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- :, in analogies - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Words in an analogy - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Analogy part - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- "Which ___ say..." - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- :, in an analogy - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- What : means in an analogy - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Colon, in an analogy - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Comparative phrase - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- "It ___ laugh": Pinero - used 7 times, most recently in 1988
- Part of an analogy - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Proportion words - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
- Words in a ratio - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
- Words of analogy - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Words of comparison - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Colon, in analogies - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Colon's meaning in an analogy - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Comparison phrase - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- "It ___ laugh" - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- What a colon may mean - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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.
- Words of understanding - ISEE, used 227 times
- ___ many words - INSO, used 153 times
- Not __ many words - INSO, used 86 times
- Treater's words - ONME, used 85 times
- Words of approximation - ORSO, used 84 times
- Words of comprehension - ISEE, used 73 times
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