Cotton swab
The crossword clue "Cotton swab" is answered by QTIP, a 4-letter entry. Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. 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
QTIP
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the QTIP answer page.
Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for QTIP
Every other clue in this collection answered by QTIP, most used first.
- Swab brand - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Cotton swab brand - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Stick it in your ear - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
- Ear cleaner - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Swab - used 8 times, most recently in 2008
- Popular swab - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Wax collector - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- A Tribe Called Quest rapper - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Little swab - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
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.
- Fine cotton - PIMA, used 50 times
- Like cotton candy - SPUN, used 30 times
- Cotton pod - BOLL, used 29 times
- Cotton bundle - BALE, used 28 times
- Cotton unit - BALE, used 22 times
- Sheet of matted cotton - BATT, used 20 times
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