Setting of Camus' "The Plague"

The answer

ORAN

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ORAN answer page.

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ORAN

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

• Algerian port - used 422 times, most recently in 2026
• Algerian seaport - used 143 times, most recently in 2025
• Algerian city - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
• Mediterranean port - used 54 times, most recently in 2022
• North African port - used 46 times, most recently in 2023
• Port of Algeria - used 41 times, most recently in 2025
• African port. - used 31 times, most recently in 2009
• "The Plague" setting - used 23 times, most recently in 2020
• Medit. port - used 10 times, most recently in 1975
• Port near Algiers - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
• "The Plague" city - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Algerian port city - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Seaport in Algeria. - used 7 times, most recently in 1985
• Setting for Camus's "The Plague" - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Port east of Gibraltar - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Port east of Tangier - used 6 times, most recently in 2013

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.

• Up to the task - ABLE, used 397 times
• In the thick of - AMID, used 377 times
• On the briny - ASEA, used 364 times
• From the top - ANEW, used 355 times
• Spill the beans - BLAB, used 313 times
• Away from the wind - ALEE, used 282 times

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