First appearance, as of symptoms

The answer

ONSET

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

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 5 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
• Earliest stage - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• Beginning phase - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Early stages - used 19 times, most recently in 2016
• Genesis - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Initial phase - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Dawning - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Advent - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• First appearance - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Starting point - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• It's a start - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• First sign - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
• Day one - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
• First symptoms - used 9 times, most recently in 2010
• Opening - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Start of something - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Beginning stages - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Outbreak - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• First occurrence - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Git-go - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
• Incipience - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Initial assault - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Very beginning - used 6 times, most recently in 2024

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