Tip of an ear

The answer

LOBE

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

Used 15 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2017. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for LOBE

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

• Ear part - used 117 times, most recently in 2026
• Part of the ear - used 61 times, most recently in 2025
• Earring site - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Brain section - used 33 times, most recently in 2025
• Place for an earring - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Brain part - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Place for a stud - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
• Stud site - used 19 times, most recently in 2022
• Ear piece - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Piercing place - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Place for a piercing - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
• Ear feature - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
• Ring site - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
• Brain area - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Earring locale - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
• Earring's spot - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Lung section - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Cerebellum section - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• Occipital ___ - used 8 times, most recently in 2007
• Part of an ear - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Place for a ring - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Earring spot - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Rounded part - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
• Rounded projection. - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Section of the brain - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Spot for a stud - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Tip of the ear - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Brain or ear part - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Division of a leaf - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Ear-piercing site - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Earring holder - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Part of the brain - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Piercing spot - 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.

• Of the ear - OTIC, used 167 times
• Ear-related - OTIC, used 144 times
• Tip off - WARN, used 56 times
• Q-tip, e.g. - SWAB, used 54 times
• Tip jar bills - ONES, used 48 times
• Elephant's-ear - TARO, used 38 times

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