Degree for many a prof

The answer

PHD

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

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2014. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for PHD

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

• Third degree? - used 65 times, most recently in 2026
• High degree - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
• Advanced deg. - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
• Prof's degree - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• Advanced degree - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• High deg. - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Prof.'s degree - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
• Prof.'s degree, often - used 17 times, most recently in 2022
• Degree of success? - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Prof's deg. - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Degree of distinction - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Professor's deg. - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Scholar's deg. - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Third deg.? - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Dissertation writer's goal - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

Related clues

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• Back muscle, for short - LAT, used 189 times
• Tit for ___ - TAT, used 189 times
• Ultimate degree - NTH, used 164 times

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