Small speck
The crossword clue "Small speck" is answered by MOTE, a 4-letter entry. Used 13 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 6 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 13 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- PINHEAD (1 uses in xd)
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
- 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
- Insignificant speck - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
- 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.
- Small bills - ONES, used 324 times
- Small songbird - WREN, used 265 times
- Small whirlpool - EDDY, used 139 times
- Small combo - TRIO, used 137 times
- Small salamander - NEWT, used 126 times
- Small brook - RILL, used 101 times
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