"Le __ Goriot"

The answer

PERE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PERE answer page.

Used 20 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2009; first recorded in 1949. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for PERE

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

• French father - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
• Father (Fr.) - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ Marquette. - used 26 times, most recently in 1993
• Dijon dad - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
• Balzac's "Le ___ Goriot" - used 22 times, most recently in 2014
• A Dumas - used 19 times, most recently in 2014
• Father, in France - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Dumas ___. - used 16 times, most recently in 2004
• Parisian pop - used 16 times, most recently in 2022
• Parisian papa - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Champagne pop? - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Paris pop - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
• Pierre's pop - used 8 times, most recently in 2010
• Father, in French - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Father of France - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• "___ Goriot" - used 7 times, most recently in 1996
• Member of la famille - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• The elder Dumas - used 6 times, most recently in 2010

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.

• Nuisance - PEST, used 336 times
• "Hey, you!" - PSST, used 325 times
• Entreaty - PLEA, used 282 times
• Equal - PEER, used 256 times
• Saucy - PERT, used 233 times
• "Hey, over here!" - PSST, used 232 times

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