Smallest possible

The answer

LEAST

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LEAST answer page.

Used 19 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for LEAST

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

• Minimum - used 116 times, most recently in 2026
• Slightest - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
• Minimal - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
• Smallest - used 57 times, most recently in 2025
• Bare minimum - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
• Smallest amount - used 45 times, most recently in 2025
• Minimal amount - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Minimum amount - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• Last but not __ - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• "It's the ___ I can do" - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Most trifling - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Most insignificant - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Lowest possible - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Opposite of most - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Not in the ___ - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• "... to say the ___" - used 14 times, most recently in 2021
• "That's the ___ of my worries!" - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Fewest - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
• Part of LCD - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Tiniest bit - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• __ common denominator - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Most trivial - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
• Part of L.C.D. - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• "It was the ___ I could do" - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Absolute minimum - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• At ___ (in any case) - used 7 times, most recently in 2005
• Lowest in importance - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
• Merest - used 6 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.

• Best possible - IDEAL, used 114 times
• All possible - EVERY, used 47 times
• Smallest mammal - SHREW, used 13 times
• Worst possible turnout - NOONE, used 12 times
• If-possible connector - ATALL, used 11 times
• World's smallest island nation - NAURU, used 9 times

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