Outbreak
The crossword clue "Outbreak" is answered by ONSET, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ONSET
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ONSET answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- FLAREUP (3 uses in xd)
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
- First appearance, as of symptoms - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- 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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