It's not always proper

The answer

NOUN

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

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2008; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for NOUN

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

• Person, place or thing - used 111 times, most recently in 2026
• Part of speech - used 83 times, most recently in 2026
• Subject, usually - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• It may be proper - used 18 times, most recently in 2018
• Sentence subject, usually - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
• Substantive. - used 17 times, most recently in 2003
• Proper ___ - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Common or proper word - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Any thing - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
• Gerund, e.g. - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
• Person, place, or thing, in grammar - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Certain word - used 9 times, most recently in 1977
• Rock, paper, or scissors - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• What an adjective modifies - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• You name it - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Subject, often - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Animal, vegetable or mineral - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• It may be common - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
• Mad Libs request - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Parser's concern - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
• Pluralizable word - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Sentence subject - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
• Sentence subject, often - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Verb go-with - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Word that's an example of itself - used 6 times, most recently in 2020

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.

• Not fooled by - ONTO, used 444 times
• Not as much - LESS, used 378 times
• Always - EVER, used 362 times
• If not - ELSE, used 199 times
• Not "fer" - AGIN, used 181 times
• Not pro - ANTI, used 172 times

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