Light bender

The answer

PRISM

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PRISM answer page.

Used 19 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• LENS (4 uses in xd)

Other clues for PRISM

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

• Light refractor - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Rainbow maker - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Spectrum creator - used 21 times, most recently in 2024
• Spectrum producer - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Spectrum maker - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Light disperser - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
• Light reflector - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Light splitter - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Beam splitter - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Light beam splitter - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Light-refracting object - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Geometric solid. - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
• Light-bending crystal - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• Light on one's feet - AGILE, used 84 times
• Light wood - BALSA, used 83 times
• Light lunch - SALAD, used 82 times
• Bender - SPREE, used 58 times
• Flash of light - GLEAM, used 54 times
• Light brown - BEIGE, used 47 times

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