Spectrum creator

The answer

PRISM

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

Used 21 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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 producer - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Spectrum maker - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Light bender - used 19 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.

• Pooh's creator - MILNE, used 87 times
• Prufrock's creator - ELIOT, used 52 times
• Creator - MAKER, used 46 times
• Crusoe's creator - DEFOE, used 42 times
• Winnie-the-Pooh's creator - MILNE, used 34 times
• Nemo's creator - VERNE, used 32 times

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