Not just once in a while

The answer

OFTEN

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OFTEN answer page.

Used 8 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2008. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for OFTEN

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

• Frequently - used 239 times, most recently in 2026
• Many times - used 44 times, most recently in 2023
• Repeatedly - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Time and again - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
• A lot - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
• More than occasionally - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Again and again - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Many a time - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Quite a lot - used 20 times, most recently in 2023
• Time after time - used 20 times, most recently in 2020
• All the time - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• "Come here ___?" - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
• Quite a bit - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
• Regularly - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• More than sometimes - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Habitually - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• In many cases - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Commonly - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
• Over and over - used 7 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.

• Once more - AGAIN, used 336 times
• Not quite right - AMISS, used 181 times
• Not a soul - NOONE, used 131 times
• Not together - APART, used 116 times
• Not moving - INERT, used 102 times
• Just right - IDEAL, used 83 times

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