Longest river
The crossword clue "Longest river" is answered by NILE, a 4-letter entry. Used 24 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1985. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
NILE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NILE answer page.
Used 24 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1985. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for NILE
Every other clue in this collection answered by NILE, most used first.
- World's longest river - used 94 times, most recently in 2026
- Cairo's river - used 91 times, most recently in 2026
- Shade of green - used 90 times, most recently in 2025
- Khartoum's river - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
- Cleopatra's river - used 61 times, most recently in 2026
- Egyptian river - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Aswan's river - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
- African river - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- Luxor's river - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
- Green shade - used 25 times, most recently in 2019
- Longest river in the world - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Africa's longest river - used 22 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.
- Russian river - URAL, used 294 times
- Swiss river - AARE, used 265 times
- Florence's river - ARNO, used 249 times
- Belgian river - YSER, used 199 times
- Stratford's river - AVON, used 175 times
- Shakespeare's river - AVON, used 138 times
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