Insignificant speck
The crossword clue "Insignificant speck" is answered by MOTE, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
MOTE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MOTE answer page.
Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for MOTE
Every other clue in this collection answered by MOTE, most used first.
- Speck - used 151 times, most recently in 2026
- Speck of dust - used 76 times, most recently in 2026
- Bit of dust - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- Dust speck - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- Dust particle - used 21 times, most recently in 2021
- Particle - used 18 times, most recently in 2016
- Small particle - used 17 times, most recently in 2019
- Small speck - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Tiny particle - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
- Tiny bit - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Tiny speck - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Cornea irritant - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
- Flyspeck - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
- Dust bunny particle - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
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.
- Insignificant - MERE, used 175 times
- Speck - IOTA, used 93 times
- Speck - ATOM, used 39 times
- Insignificant - PUNY, used 29 times
- Speck of land in the sea - ISLE, used 22 times
- Speck in the sea - ISLE, used 16 times
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