One of 26.2 in a marathon

The answer

MILE

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

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for MILE

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

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• 5,280 feet - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Odometer unit - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
• 1,760 yards - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Linear measure - used 28 times, most recently in 2023
• Marathon fraction - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Marathon unit - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Race distance - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
• Treadmill unit - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Odometer measure - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• 63,360 inches - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• 1/500 of the Indianapolis 500 - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Go the extra ___ - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Distance measure - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Pedometer unit - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
• "__ High City"; Denver - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Marathon measure - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Wide margin - used 6 times, most recently in 2015

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