First-year cadet
The crossword clue "First-year cadet" is answered by PLEBE, a 5-letter entry. Used 14 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PLEBE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PLEBE answer page.
Used 14 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for PLEBE
Every other clue in this collection answered by PLEBE, most used first.
- West Point freshman - used 42 times, most recently in 2019
- Annapolis frosh - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Academy freshman - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Annapolis freshman - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- West Pointer. - used 12 times, most recently in 1987
- New cadet - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Newbie, of sorts - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Academy frosh - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Academy newcomer - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
- Military academy freshman - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- USNA freshman - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- West Point newcomer - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Academy newbie - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- West Point frosh - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Annapolis newbie - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Cadet - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Freshman cadet - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
- Naval Academy freshman - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- USNA newcomer - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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