Egg without a shell
The crossword clue "Egg without a shell" is answered by OVUM, a 4-letter entry. Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
OVUM
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OVUM answer page.
Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for OVUM
Every other clue in this collection answered by OVUM, most used first.
- Egg - used 83 times, most recently in 2025
- Egg cell - used 78 times, most recently in 2026
- Female gamete - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
- Reproductive cell - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Fallopian tube traveler - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Gamete - used 9 times, most recently in 2009
- Certain gamete - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Egg, biologically - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- Egg: Lat. - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Egg, to a biologist - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Fertility clinic cell - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Fertility clinic egg - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
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.
- Without - SANS, used 275 times
- Egg on - URGE, used 170 times
- Egg-shaped - OVAL, used 104 times
- Goose egg - ZERO, used 89 times
- Without a date - STAG, used 88 times
- Egg on - GOAD, used 85 times
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