Societal standard

The answer

NORM

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

Used 19 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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
• 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
• Rule of thumb - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• 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.

• Societal woes - ILLS, used 61 times
• Societal problems - ILLS, used 45 times
• Societal troubles - ILLS, used 23 times
• Turkish standard. - ALEM, used 13 times
• Standard Oil brand - ESSO, used 12 times
• Standard of measurement - UNIT, used 11 times

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