Type of badge
The crossword clue "Type of badge" is answered by MERIT, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2006; first recorded in 1972. 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
MERIT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MERIT answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2006; first recorded in 1972. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for MERIT
Every other clue in this collection answered by MERIT, most used first.
- Deserve - used 159 times, most recently in 2026
- Be worthy of - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
- Earn - used 61 times, most recently in 2026
- Reason for a raise - used 44 times, most recently in 2025
- Worth - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Excellence - used 33 times, most recently in 2025
- Kind of badge - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
- Promotion basis - used 21 times, most recently in 2022
- Have coming - used 16 times, most recently in 2020
- ___ badge - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
- Be deserving of - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Worthiness - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Warrant - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Deserve to get - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Virtue - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Rate - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
- Scholarship criterion - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- ___ badge (Scout's award) - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Boy Scout badge - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Deserve to receive - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Type of system or badge - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Scholarship basis - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- __ badge; Boy Scout's award - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Kind of badge for a scout - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Qualify for - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
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- Navel type - INNIE, used 44 times
- Typewriter type. - ELITE, used 44 times
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