Rule of thumb

The answer

NORM

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

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• GUIDELINE (2 uses in xd)
• EBERTSGOODORBADREVIEW (1 uses in xd)
• PRECEPT (1 uses in xd)
• STANDARD (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for NORM

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

• Standard - used 238 times, most recently in 2026
• Average - used 55 times, most recently in 2024
• "Cheers" regular - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Benchmark - used 28 times, most recently in 2023
• Social standard - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Par - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• "Cheers" barfly - used 23 times, most recently in 2018
• Accepted standard - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• Societal standard - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• What's expected - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
• Group standard - used 18 times, most recently in 2014
• "Cheers" character - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Convention - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Par for the course - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Expected result - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Model - used 12 times, most recently in 2013
• "Cheers" patron - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
• Cliff's pal on "Cheers" - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Comic Crosby - used 9 times, most recently in 2003
• Pattern. - used 9 times, most recently in 1964
• Usual - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• "Cheers" accountant - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• "Cheers" habitue - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• Crosby of comedy - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
• Expected outcome - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• General standard - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• "Cheers" cheer - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• What's typical - used 6 times, most recently in 2022

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.

• Golden Rule word - UNTO, used 299 times
• "Rule, Britannia" composer - ARNE, used 282 times
• Golden Rule preposition - UNTO, used 188 times
• "Rule, Britannia" composer Thomas - ARNE, used 37 times
• ___ of thumb - RULE, used 23 times
• ___-my-thumb - HOPO, used 19 times

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