Tip of a pen

The answer

NIB

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NIB answer page.

Used 21 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 12 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
• 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
• Point of a pen - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• 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.

• Pen name - BIC, used 178 times
• Pen filler - INK, used 89 times
• Pen - STY, used 87 times
• Farm pen - STY, used 79 times
• Pen contents - INK, used 35 times
• Pen fill - INK, used 34 times

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