Stand for
The crossword clue "Stand for" is answered by MEAN, a 4-letter entry. Used 14 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1972. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
MEAN
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MEAN answer page.
Used 14 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1972. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
Other clues for MEAN
Every other clue in this collection answered by MEAN, most used first.
- Intend - used 120 times, most recently in 2026
- Average - used 87 times, most recently in 2026
- Nasty - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
- Signify - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
- Have in mind - used 48 times, most recently in 2024
- Cruel - used 46 times, most recently in 2025
- Unkind - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Spiteful - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Malicious - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
- Not nice - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Downright nasty - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Like the Grinch - used 13 times, most recently in 2021
- Ornery - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Penny-pinching - used 13 times, most recently in 2019
- Intend (to) - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Not at all nice - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Stingy - used 11 times, most recently in 2017
- Ill-tempered - used 10 times, most recently in 2014
- Small-minded - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
- Statistical average - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Ignoble - used 8 times, most recently in 2000
- Intend to say - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Base - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
- Shabby - used 7 times, most recently in 1992
- Black-hearted - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- Like a bully - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Miserly - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Vicious - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
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.
- For fear that - LEST, used 503 times
- Change for a five - ONES, used 272 times
- "What's ___ for me?" - INIT, used 264 times
- Shrek, for one - OGRE, used 244 times
- Ready for business - OPEN, used 184 times
- Look for - SEEK, used 172 times
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