Try to bite
The crossword clue "Try to bite" is answered by NIPAT, a 5-letter entry. Used 18 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
NIPAT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NIPAT answer page.
Used 18 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for NIPAT
Every other clue in this collection answered by NIPAT, most used first.
- Bite playfully - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Try to bite, puppy-style - used 13 times, most recently in 2020
- Go after, puppy-style - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Lightly bite - 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.
- Take ___ at (try) - ASTAB, used 42 times
- Take a bite of - TASTE, used 31 times
- Try to pick up - HITON, used 26 times
- Try - TASTE, used 23 times
- Unable to eat another bite - SATED, used 23 times
- Try - ESSAY, used 21 times
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