Word often confused with "fewer"

The answer

LESS

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

Used 9 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2021. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for LESS

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

• Not as much - used 378 times, most recently in 2026
• Minus - used 321 times, most recently in 2026
• Not so much - used 171 times, most recently in 2026
• Reduced amount - used 69 times, most recently in 2026
• Fewer - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
• Not as expensive - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Discounted by - used 44 times, most recently in 2023
• More or ___ - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ is more" - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• A smaller amount - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Reduced by - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
• Subtraction word - used 31 times, most recently in 2020
• Smaller amount - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Amount to make do with - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• "I couldn't care ___!" - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Discounted - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• More or __ (approximately) - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Smaller. - used 18 times, most recently in 2019
• Take away - used 18 times, most recently in 2020
• Diminished by - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Subtracting - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
• Without - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Without: Suffix - used 14 times, most recently in 2006
• More, proverbially - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
• Not as costly - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Not as often - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Opposite of more - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• To a smaller degree - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• "Make do" amount - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
• More, to minimalists - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Not as pricey - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Not so great - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• Reduced - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• To a smaller extent - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• With a discount of - used 11 times, most recently in 2016
• Inferior. - used 10 times, most recently in 2006
• Marked down - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• "___ is more": Browning - used 9 times, most recently in 1999
• Not as - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Off - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• "In 25 words or ___ ..." - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
• Lacking: suff. - used 8 times, most recently in 2000
• More, in a saying - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Subtracted by - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• It's sometimes more - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• More, to a minimalist - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• More's opposite - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Not including - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Not so - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Result of downsizing - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• Slighter - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Taking off - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• A smaller amount of - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Cheaper - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Diminishing returns - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Lower - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• More, in a phrase - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• More limited - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Not more - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• On sale, say - 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.

• Golden Rule word - UNTO, used 299 times
• Division word - INTO, used 273 times
• Word-of-mouth - ORAL, used 184 times
• Prefix with dynamic - AERO, used 152 times
• Share a border with - ABUT, used 152 times
• Choice word - ELSE, used 147 times

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