Japanese instrument
The crossword clue "Japanese instrument" is answered by KOTO, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
KOTO
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the KOTO answer page.
Used 8 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for KOTO
Every other clue in this collection answered by KOTO, most used first.
- Japanese zither - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Japanese stringed instrument - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
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.
- Woodwind instrument - OBOE, used 332 times
- Reed instrument - OBOE, used 195 times
- Double-reed instrument - OBOE, used 140 times
- Japanese wrestling - SUMO, used 118 times
- Japanese noodle - UDON, used 116 times
- Japanese soup - MISO, used 88 times
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