One corner of a Monopoly board

The answer

JAIL

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

Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for JAIL

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

• Monopoly corner - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Lockup - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Hoosegow - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
• Monopoly square - used 20 times, most recently in 2012
• Slammer - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
• Incarcerate - used 10 times, most recently in 2011
• Cooler - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
• Monopoly board corner - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
• Prison - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Clink - used 8 times, most recently in 2009
• Corner square in Monopoly - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Pokey - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Calaboose - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Corner space in Monopoly - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• "Just Visiting" Monopoly square - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Lock up - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Stir - 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.

• One of the Great Lakes - ERIE, used 258 times
• Shrek, for one - OGRE, used 244 times
• From square one - ANEW, used 181 times
• Wise one - SAGE, used 146 times
• Bring on board - HIRE, used 141 times
• Monopoly card - DEED, used 126 times

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