"___ to Billy Joe"

The answer

ODE

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ODE answer page.

Used 22 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2011; first recorded in 1985. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ODE

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

• Poem of praise - used 492 times, most recently in 2026
• Poetic tribute - used 212 times, most recently in 2026
• Lyric poem - used 177 times, most recently in 2026
• Praiseful poem - used 175 times, most recently in 2026
• Praise in verse - used 136 times, most recently in 2026
• Tribute in verse - used 85 times, most recently in 2026
• Keats work - used 79 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ to Joy" - used 76 times, most recently in 2026
• Keats creation - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
• Dedicated poem - used 61 times, most recently in 2026
• Poem. - used 61 times, most recently in 2014
• Poem of homage - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
• Beethoven's "___ to Joy" - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
• Pindar poem - used 57 times, most recently in 2025
• Laudatory poem - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
• Keats poem - used 49 times, most recently in 2025
• Poetic form - used 48 times, most recently in 2019
• Rhyming tribute - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ to Billie Joe" - used 47 times, most recently in 2024
• Poetic homage - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
• Wordsworth work - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Shelley work - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Laudatory lines - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• "To a ..." poem - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• Horatian creation - used 36 times, most recently in 2023
• "___ on a Grecian Urn" - used 36 times, most recently in 2023
• Tribute poem - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Words of praise - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Dedicated verse - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Poem of tribute - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Dedicated lines - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Pindar work - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Pindar product - used 32 times, most recently in 2024
• Laudatory verse - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Lofty lines - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Lyrical tribute - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Lofty poem - used 27 times, most recently in 2024
• Poetic praise - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Dedicated work - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ to a Nightingale" - used 26 times, most recently in 2023
• Exalted poem - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• Homage in verse - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
• Lyric work - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
• Verse form - used 24 times, most recently in 2024
• Lofty verse - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Canticle - used 22 times, most recently in 2004
• Poem type - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
• Poetic paean - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• Verse of praise - 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.

• Billy __ Williams - DEE, used 59 times
• Actor Billy ___ Williams - DEE, used 52 times

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