Poetic word
The crossword clue "Poetic word" is answered by NEER, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 1976; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
NEER
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NEER answer page.
Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 1976; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for NEER
Every other clue in this collection answered by NEER, most used first.
- ___-do-well - used 511 times, most recently in 2026
- Poetic contraction. - used 70 times, most recently in 2025
- Not e'en once - used 58 times, most recently in 2025
- "... ___ the twain shall meet" - used 31 times, most recently in 2022
- At no time, poetically - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
- "... and ___ the twain shall meet" - used 24 times, most recently in 2018
- Poetic adverb - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Opposite of alway - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
- Not once, poetically - used 14 times, most recently in 2018
- At no time, in verse - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- At no time, to poets - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
- Poetic negative - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
- At no time, in poetry - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Start to do well? - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Do-well intro - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Alway's opposite - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- "What, will these hands ___ be clean?": Lady Macbeth - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- At no time, to Tennyson - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
- Beginning to do-well? - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- ___-do-well (good-for-nothing) - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Not even once, poetically - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
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.
- Golden Rule word - UNTO, used 299 times
- Division word - INTO, used 273 times
- Word-of-mouth - ORAL, used 184 times
- Choice word - ELSE, used 147 times
- Towel word - HERS, used 143 times
- Word of woe - ALAS, used 143 times
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