Half hexadeca-

The answer

OCTO

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

Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2008. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for OCTO

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

• Numerical prefix - used 87 times, most recently in 2023
• Eight: Prefix - used 69 times, most recently in 2026
• Prefix meaning "eight" - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Eight: Comb. form - used 30 times, most recently in 1990
• Twice tetra- - used 24 times, most recently in 2024
• Prefix with -genarian - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
• Eight (Pref.) - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Prefix with -pod - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
• Quadri- doubled - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Eight, in combinations - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Eight, to Augustus - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• VIII - used 8 times, most recently in 1997
• Arachnid-appropriate prefix - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Bi-, quadrupled - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Bi- times four - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Eight, for a start - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Opening with pus - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Prefix with -pus - used 6 times, most recently in 2017

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.

• Half a sextet - TRIO, used 81 times
• Half: Prefix. - SEMI, used 68 times
• Half: Prefix - HEMI, used 66 times
• Half-moon tide - NEAP, used 62 times
• Time ___ half - ANDA, used 57 times
• More than half - MOST, used 50 times

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