Local dialect
The crossword clue "Local dialect" is answered by PATOIS, a 6-letter entry. Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1977. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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PATOIS
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Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1977. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for PATOIS
Every other clue in this collection answered by PATOIS, most used first.
- Dialect - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
- Regional dialect - used 21 times, most recently in 2024
- Jargon - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Vernacular - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
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.
- Local resident - NATIVE, used 11 times
- Off-campus local - TOWNIE, used 8 times
- Dialect - ACCENT, used 6 times
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