Preferably
The crossword clue "Preferably" is answered by RATHER, a 6-letter entry. Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1967. 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
RATHER
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RATHER answer page.
Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1967. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for RATHER
Every other clue in this collection answered by RATHER, most used first.
- Somewhat - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Newsman Dan - used 10 times, most recently in 2014
- Prefer to - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Cronkite's successor - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
- Quite - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Word of preference - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
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.
- Meal - REPAST, used 156 times
- Brought up - REARED, used 104 times
- Negligent - REMISS, used 102 times
- Dwell - RESIDE, used 101 times
- Cash in - REDEEM, used 96 times
- Theater district - RIALTO, used 86 times
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