Earliest stage
The crossword clue "Earliest stage" is answered by ONSET, a 5-letter entry. Used 25 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2011. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
ONSET
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ONSET answer page.
Used 25 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2011. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ONSET
Every other clue in this collection answered by ONSET, most used first.
- Beginning - used 596 times, most recently in 2026
- Start - used 209 times, most recently in 2026
- Commencement - used 109 times, most recently in 2025
- Initial stage - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
- Get-go - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
- Beginning stage - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
- Assault - used 42 times, most recently in 2009
- First stage - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Kickoff - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
- Early stage - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Inception - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Dawn - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Attack - used 29 times, most recently in 2023
- First phase - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Beginning phase - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Stage direction - ENTER, used 165 times
- Stage whisper - ASIDE, used 129 times
- Stage - PHASE, used 74 times
- Insect stage - IMAGO, used 63 times
- Insect stage - LARVA, used 56 times
- Stage comment - ASIDE, used 52 times
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