Gamete
The crossword clue "Gamete" is answered by OVUM, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2009; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
OVUM
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OVUM answer page.
Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2009; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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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
- Egg without a shell - used 11 times, most recently in 2016
- Fallopian tube traveler - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- 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
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