Shiny mineral
The crossword clue "Shiny mineral" is answered by MICA, a 4-letter entry. Used 21 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
MICA
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MICA answer page.
Used 21 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. 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 MICA
Every other clue in this collection answered by MICA, most used first.
- Isinglass - used 115 times, most recently in 2016
- Flaky mineral - used 102 times, most recently in 2026
- Layered mineral - used 33 times, most recently in 2025
- Easily split mineral - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Flaky rock - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Flexible mineral - used 16 times, most recently in 2016
- Glittery mineral - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Translucent mineral - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- Mineral in sheets - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
- Silicate - used 10 times, most recently in 1984
- Muscovite, e.g. - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Biotite - used 7 times, most recently in 1991
- Mineral. - used 7 times, most recently in 1974
- Muscovite - used 7 times, most recently in 1993
- Thin-layered mineral - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Transparent mineral - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
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.
- Soft mineral - TALC, used 260 times
- Mineral springs - SPAS, used 70 times
- Mineral sources - ORES, used 33 times
- Powdery mineral - TALC, used 31 times
- Softest mineral - TALC, used 31 times
- Mineral deposits - ORES, used 30 times
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