Oscar hopeful
The crossword clue "Oscar hopeful" is answered by NOMINEE, a 7-letter entry. Used 13 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1983. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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NOMINEE
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Used 13 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1983. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for NOMINEE
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- Candidate - used 7 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.
- Hollywood hopeful - STARLET, used 28 times
- Contest hopeful - ENTRANT, used 16 times
- Hopeful - WANNABE, used 10 times
- Oscar role for Tom - FORREST, used 7 times
- Oscar-winning film about Mozart - AMADEUS, used 6 times
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