Ready alternative?

The answer

NOT

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NOT answer page.

Used 23 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for NOT

Every other clue in this collection answered by NOT, most used first.

• "Just kidding!" - used 84 times, most recently in 2026
• Negative. - used 67 times, most recently in 2026
• "Kidding!" - used 62 times, most recently in 2026
• "Psych!" - used 62 times, most recently in 2026
• Word of denial - used 58 times, most recently in 2025
• Negating word - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ so fast!" - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ a chance!" - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• "As if!" - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• Forget-me-__ - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ to worry" - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
• "___ too shabby!" - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Part of NIMBY - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• "I should say __!" - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• "___ on your life!" - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• "What's __ to like?" - used 22 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• 401(k) alternative - IRA, used 215 times
• Ready to go - SET, used 135 times
• PC alternative - MAC, used 130 times
• Coffee alternative - TEA, used 89 times
• "Ready, __, go!" - SET, used 79 times
• AOL alternative - MSN, used 71 times

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