What "-phile" means
The crossword clue "What "-phile" means" is answered by LOVER, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
LOVER
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LOVER answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for LOVER
Every other clue in this collection answered by LOVER, most used first.
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