___ contendere (defendant's plea)

The answer

NOLO

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NOLO answer page.

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1955. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for NOLO

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

• ___ contendere - used 293 times, most recently in 2025
• ___ contendere (court plea) - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
• Court plea, for short - used 28 times, most recently in 2022
• Court plea, briefly - used 18 times, most recently in 2018
• Court plea, informally - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
• Agnew's plea, briefly - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
• "___ contendere" (no contest plea) - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
• Legal plea, for short - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Court plea, in brief - used 8 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.

• Nolo contendere, e.g. - PLEA, used 33 times
• Child's plea - CANI, used 20 times
• Kid's plea - CANI, used 20 times
• Defendant's declaration - PLEA, used 12 times
• Defendant's statement - PLEA, used 11 times
• Defendant's answer - PLEA, used 10 times

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