Not by a long shot

The answer

NOHOW

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NOHOW answer page.

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for NOHOW

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

• Not at all - used 33 times, most recently in 2019
• "Ain't gonna happen" - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
• Not in any way - used 15 times, most recently in 2013
• "When pigs fly!" - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Emphatic refusal - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• "Forget it!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
• "Absolutely not!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• "Ain't happening!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• At all - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• At all, in dialect - used 6 times, most recently in 2021

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.

• Not quite right - AMISS, used 181 times
• Not a soul - NOONE, used 131 times
• Not together - APART, used 116 times
• Not moving - INERT, used 102 times
• Long (for) - YEARN, used 99 times
• Long stories - SAGAS, used 95 times

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