Bench press target

The answer

PEC

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

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2018. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for PEC

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

• Chest muscle - used 125 times, most recently in 2026
• Chest muscle, for short - used 120 times, most recently in 2026
• Delt neighbor - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
• Chest muscle, briefly - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Bench press muscle, for short - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Upper-bod muscle - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Ab's neighbor - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Chest muscle, informally - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Bench press muscle - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Push-up muscle, briefly - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Ab neighbor - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Push-up muscle - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Bench press muscle, briefly - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• Church bench - PEW, used 90 times
• Press for payment - DUN, used 68 times
• Gloss target - LIP, used 61 times
• Press into service - USE, used 54 times
• Rode the bench - SAT, used 43 times
• Bowler's target - PIN, used 42 times

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