French mother

The answer

MERE

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

Used 12 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1975. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for MERE

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

• Insignificant - used 175 times, most recently in 2026
• Nothing more than - used 159 times, most recently in 2026
• Simple - used 136 times, most recently in 2026
• "A ___ formality" - used 86 times, most recently in 2026
• Trifling - used 84 times, most recently in 2026
• Paltry - used 76 times, most recently in 2026
• Only - used 74 times, most recently in 2025
• ___ mortals - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
• No more than - used 65 times, most recently in 2026
• Just - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Nothing but - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• Pure and simple - used 45 times, most recently in 2023
• A ___ pittance - used 44 times, most recently in 2025
• Bare - used 39 times, most recently in 2008
• "... for a ___ pittance" - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Piddling - used 32 times, most recently in 2024
• Slight - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
• "A ___ technicality!" - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ mortal - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Unimportant - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Little more than - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Inconsequential - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Unembellished - used 21 times, most recently in 2015
• "A ___ coincidence!" - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• A ___ bagatelle - used 16 times, most recently in 2019
• Measly - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Scant - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Trivial - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• "___ words cannot express ..." - used 12 times, most recently in 2017
• A __ pittance (very little money) - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Like mortals? - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
• Being nothing more than - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• French parent - used 8 times, most recently in 1999
• Nothing other than - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Marginally sufficient - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
• Plain and simple - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Pool - used 7 times, most recently in 1996
• Type of formality - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• "It's a ___ formality" - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Kind of formality - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
• No better than - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Not more than - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Nothing more than specified - used 6 times, most recently in 2007
• Only just - used 6 times, most recently in 2020

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.

• French 101 verb - ETRE, used 220 times
• French cleric - ABBE, used 172 times
• French pronoun. - ELLE, used 166 times
• French friend - AMIE, used 144 times
• Don Juan's mother - INEZ, used 135 times
• Mother of Castor and Pollux - LEDA, used 115 times

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