Point of a pen
The crossword clue "Point of a pen" is answered by NIB, a 3-letter entry. Used 12 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
NIB
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NIB answer page.
Used 12 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for NIB
Every other clue in this collection answered by NIB, most used first.
- Pen point - used 146 times, most recently in 2026
- Pen tip - used 101 times, most recently in 2026
- Penpoint - used 87 times, most recently in 2026
- Beak - used 33 times, most recently in 2013
- Point - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
- Writing tip - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Tip of a pen - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Bird's beak - used 20 times, most recently in 2023
- Pen part - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
- Quill tip - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Writer's point? - used 15 times, most recently in 2017
- Pen end - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Point of writing - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Bill - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Tip for a writer - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Pen's tip - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Business end of a pen - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Point of a quill pen - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Compass point. - ENE, used 222 times
- Pen name - BIC, used 178 times
- Compass point. - SSE, used 160 times
- Compass point. - NNE, used 142 times
- Compass point. - ESE, used 133 times
- "Your point being?" - AND, used 103 times
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