Told an untruth
The crossword clue "Told an untruth" is answered by LIED, a 4-letter entry. Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
LIED
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LIED answer page.
Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for LIED
Every other clue in this collection answered by LIED, most used first.
- Told a whopper - used 65 times, most recently in 2025
- Fibbed - used 61 times, most recently in 2026
- German song. - used 44 times, most recently in 2014
- Committed perjury - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
- Wasn't truthful - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Wasn't honest - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Wasn't straight - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Prevaricated - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
- Told tales - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
- Served up a whopper - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
- Perjured oneself - used 17 times, most recently in 2022
- Told a fib - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Told whoppers - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Stretched the truth - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Told stories - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Emulated Pinocchio - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Was untruthful - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Was dishonest - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Didn't tell the truth - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Told fibs - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Fudged the facts - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Schubert song - used 10 times, most recently in 2003
- Bent the truth - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Made stuff up - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Told a falsehood - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Told a tale - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Was mendacious - used 7 times, most recently in 2005
- Wasn't forthright - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Emulated Ananias - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- German art song - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- "So I ___" - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Told a fish story - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Told a story - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Told it like it wasn't - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Told tall tales - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- Twisted the truth - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Was deceitful - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Wasn't true - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
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.
- Do as you're told - OBEY, used 79 times
- Do as told - OBEY, used 64 times
- "... ___ I'm told" - ORSO, used 22 times
- Do as one's told - OBEY, used 18 times
- "___ you're told!" - DOAS, used 17 times
- "The Greatest Story ___ Told" - EVER, used 13 times
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