Understanding

The answer

KEN

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the KEN answer page.

Used 112 times across 44 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 18 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.

• ENTENTE (25 uses in xd)
• GRASP (21 uses in xd)
• UPTAKE (11 uses in xd)
• ONTO (6 uses in xd)
• EMPATHY (5 uses in xd)

Other clues for KEN

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

• Barbie's beau - used 133 times, most recently in 2026
• Documentarian Burns - used 58 times, most recently in 2026
• Author Kesey - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
• Barbie's boyfriend - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Barbie's companion - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Boxer Norton - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
• Writer Follett - used 45 times, most recently in 2024
• Range of knowledge - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• Knowledge - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• Boy toy? - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Cognizance - used 30 times, most recently in 2023
• He's a doll - used 29 times, most recently in 2021
• Jennings of "Jeopardy!" - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Writer Kesey - used 26 times, most recently in 2020
• Filmmaker Burns - used 24 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• Sounds of understanding - AHS, used 23 times

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