Nonpoetic writing
The crossword clue "Nonpoetic writing" is answered by PROSE, a 5-letter entry. Used 18 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PROSE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PROSE answer page.
Used 18 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for PROSE
Every other clue in this collection answered by PROSE, most used first.
- Plain writing - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
- Ordinary writing - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Ordinary language - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
- Poetry's counterpart - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Regular writing - used 13 times, most recently in 2019
- Everyday writing - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Most writing - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- Everyday language - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Plain talk - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Narrative writing - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Plain speaking - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- The written word - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- It's unmetered - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
- Novel makeup - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- "Purple" writing - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
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.
- Writing assignment - ESSAY, used 42 times
- Mystery-writing award - EDGAR, used 23 times
- Japanese writing system - KANJI, used 16 times
- Writing class assignment - ESSAY, used 10 times
- Put down in writing? - LIBEL, used 9 times
- Defame in writing - LIBEL, used 8 times
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