Zero, at the World Cup

The answer

NIL

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

Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2012. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for NIL

Every other clue in this collection answered by NIL, most used first.

• Zero - used 399 times, most recently in 2026
• Zilch - used 358 times, most recently in 2026
• Nothing - used 280 times, most recently in 2026
• Zip - used 227 times, most recently in 2026
• Nada - used 117 times, most recently in 2026
• Goose egg - used 98 times, most recently in 2026
• Nothing at all - used 79 times, most recently in 2026
• Zero, in soccer - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
• Zippo - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
• Nonexistent - used 57 times, most recently in 2025
• Naught - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
• Zero, in soccer scores - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
• It's nothing - used 38 times, most recently in 2025
• Diddly-squat - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Squat - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
• It means nothing - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Not a whit - used 23 times, most recently in 2017
• 0 - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Common soccer score - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Bubkes - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Not a thing - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
• None at all - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Soccer zero - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• It's nothing, really - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• It's nothing at all - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Lacking value - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
• Unimpressive score - used 9 times, most recently in 2012
• Absolutely nothing - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Big fat zero - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• Not a one - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Shutout score, in soccer - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• ___ desperandum. - used 7 times, most recently in 1985
• It's really nothing - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• Less than diddly - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• None whatsoever - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
• Soccer shutout score - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Zero, to soccer fans - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Zip, in soccer - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Diddly - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
• Soccer shutout - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Valueless - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Zero, in a soccer score - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Zero score in soccer - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Zero, to Nero - used 6 times, most recently in 2014

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.

• In the past - AGO, used 1,064 times
• In the style of - ALA, used 784 times
• Under the weather - ILL, used 536 times
• "___ the season ..." - TIS, used 398 times
• To the ___ degree - NTH, used 389 times
• In the manner of - ALA, used 367 times

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