Is compelled to
The crossword clue "Is compelled to" is answered by MUST, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2004. 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
MUST
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MUST answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for MUST
Every other clue in this collection answered by MUST, most used first.
- Has to - used 69 times, most recently in 2026
- Requirement - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Have to - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
- Necessity - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Is required to - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Need to - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Needs to - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Can't help but - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Essential - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Has no choice - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Absolute requirement - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- Essential thing - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Is obliged to - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Nonnegotiable item - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
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.
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- Repair - MEND, used 208 times
- Dole (out) - METE, used 206 times
- ___ Hari - MATA, used 197 times
- Created - MADE, used 182 times
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