Brazilian sports legend
The crossword clue "Brazilian sports legend" is answered by PELE, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1997. 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
PELE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PELE answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for PELE
Every other clue in this collection answered by PELE, most used first.
- Soccer great - used 108 times, most recently in 2026
- Soccer legend - used 86 times, most recently in 2025
- Brazilian soccer legend - used 69 times, most recently in 2026
- Brazilian soccer great - used 54 times, most recently in 2025
- Soccer immortal - used 26 times, most recently in 2020
- One-named Brazilian soccer legend - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Soccer superstar - used 19 times, most recently in 2016
- Brazilian soccer star - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Soccer icon - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Soccer star - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
- Brazilian soccer hero - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes. - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- "The Black Pearl" of soccer - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Brazilian booter - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- One-named soccer great - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- One-named soccer legend - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- One-named soccer star - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Soccer's "Black Pearl" - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- "The Black Pearl" - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
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.
- Tennis legend Arthur - ASHE, used 125 times
- Sports figure - STAT, used 89 times
- Jazz legend Fitzgerald - ELLA, used 85 times
- Himalayan legend - YETI, used 69 times
- College sports org. - NCAA, used 56 times
- Brazilian berry - ACAI, used 49 times
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