Dominant theme
The crossword clue "Dominant theme" is answered by MOTIF, a 5-letter entry. Used 15 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1976. 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
MOTIF
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MOTIF answer page.
Used 15 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1976. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for MOTIF
Every other clue in this collection answered by MOTIF, most used first.
- Recurring theme - used 95 times, most recently in 2026
- Theme - used 54 times, most recently in 2023
- Decorator's theme - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Main theme - used 12 times, most recently in 2012
- Recurrent theme - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Artistic theme - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
- Central theme - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
- Musical theme - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
- Design theme - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Unifying idea - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Unifying theme - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
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.
- Dominant - ALPHA, used 48 times
- "__ Theme" ("Doctor Zhivago" tune) - LARAS, used 21 times
- Dominant - ONTOP, used 18 times
- Disney theme park - EPCOT, used 17 times
- Theme - TOPIC, used 16 times
- "___ Fly Now" ("Rocky" theme) - GONNA, used 15 times
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