Plucked instruments
The crossword clue "Plucked instruments" is answered by LUTES, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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LUTES
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LUTES answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for LUTES
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- Stringed instruments - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
- Pear-shaped instruments - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Minstrels' instruments - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
- Renaissance instruments - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
- Troubadours' instruments - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Cousins of mandolins - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Mandolin relatives - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Mandolins' cousins - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Woodwind instruments - OBOES, used 43 times
- Double-reed instruments - OBOES, used 37 times
- Wind instruments - OBOES, used 21 times
- Jazz instruments - SAXES, used 16 times
- Stringed instruments - VIOLS, used 15 times
- Large brass instruments - TUBAS, used 14 times
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