Stringed instruments
The crossword clue "Stringed instruments" is answered by LUTES, a 5-letter entry. Used 21 times across 19 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1946. It appears in 5 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
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Used 21 times across 19 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1946. It appears in 5 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
Every other clue in this collection answered by LUTES, most used first.
- 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
- Plucked instruments - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- 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.
- Stringed instrument - VIOLA, used 51 times
- Woodwind instruments - OBOES, used 43 times
- Double-reed instruments - OBOES, used 37 times
- Stringed instrument - SITAR, used 23 times
- Wind instruments - OBOES, used 21 times
- Stringed instrument - CELLO, used 19 times
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