Decide to leave, with "out"

The answer

OPT

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

Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for OPT

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

• Choose - used 490 times, most recently in 2026
• Make a choice - used 399 times, most recently in 2026
• Go (for) - used 127 times, most recently in 2026
• Decide - used 108 times, most recently in 2026
• Select, with "for" - used 85 times, most recently in 2026
• Be decisive - used 81 times, most recently in 2026
• Make a decision - used 77 times, most recently in 2026
• Choose (to) - used 73 times, most recently in 2026
• Make a selection - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
• Elect - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
• Make up your mind - used 50 times, most recently in 2025
• Withdraw, with "out" - used 47 times, most recently in 2025
• Choose, with "for" - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• Select - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Get off the fence - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Pick, with "for" - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Decide (to) - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Make a pick - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
• Elect (to) - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• __ for (choose) - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Make up one's mind - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Decline, with "out" - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Take your pick - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ out (withdraw) - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Stop waffling - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Vote (for) - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Pick - used 13 times, most recently in 2016
• Be choosy? - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• Bow (out) - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Choice word - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Not req. - used 10 times, most recently in 2007
• __-out clause - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Take one's pick - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Pick a card, say - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
• Quit, with "out" - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• __ for (pick) - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Make a call - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ out (decline to participate) - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Back (out) - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Drop (out) - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Elect, with "for" - used 6 times, most recently in 2023

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.

• ___ out a living - EKE, used 426 times
• Conk out - DIE, used 239 times
• Squeeze (out) - EKE, used 214 times
• Rent out - LET, used 200 times
• With it - HIP, used 149 times
• Just out - NEW, used 146 times

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