Degree of distinction
The crossword clue "Degree of distinction" is answered by PHD, a 3-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1994. 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
PHD
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PHD answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1994. 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
- 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
- Degree for many a prof - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Dissertation writer's goal - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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- Utmost degree - NTH, used 113 times
- High degree - NTH, used 98 times
- Highest degree - NTH, used 62 times
- ___ degree - NTH, used 61 times
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