Tear
The crossword clue "Tear" is answered by RACE, a 4-letter entry. Used 24 times across 23 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1978. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
RACE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RACE answer page.
Used 24 times across 23 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1978. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for RACE
Every other clue in this collection answered by RACE, most used first.
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- Contest - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
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.
- Tear - REND, used 216 times
- Tear apart - REND, used 207 times
- Tear down - RAZE, used 82 times
- Tear apart - RIVE, used 53 times
- Tear asunder - REND, used 41 times
- Tear to bits - REND, used 37 times
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