Pied Piper followers

The answer

RATS

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RATS answer page.

Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1982. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for RATS

Every other clue in this collection answered by RATS, most used first.

• "Phooey!" - used 172 times, most recently in 2026
• "Darn it!" - used 101 times, most recently in 2026
• "Darn!" - used 55 times, most recently in 2025
• Charlie Brown expletive - used 32 times, most recently in 2021
• "Doggone!" - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Word of disgust - used 28 times, most recently in 2023
• "Peanuts" expletive - used 26 times, most recently in 2019
• Lab-maze runners - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• "Dagnabbit!" - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Long-tailed rodents - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• "Doggone it!" - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• "Darn it all!" - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Charlie Brown exclamation - used 13 times, most recently in 2019
• "Fiddlesticks!" - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Pied Piper's followers - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Rodents. - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• "Shoot!" - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• "Shucks!" - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Squealers - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
• Cry of disgust - used 10 times, most recently in 2002
• "Dang!" - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• "Dang it!" - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Deserters - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Hamelin's problem - used 10 times, most recently in 2008
• Lab animals - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Opposite of "yippee!" - used 10 times, most recently in 2006
• "Aw, shucks!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Charlie Brown's expletive - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
• "Gosh darn it!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Tellers? - used 9 times, most recently in 2009
• "Curses!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Mild expletive - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
• Scoundrels - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Squeals - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
• "Aw, darn!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Charlie Brown's "Darn!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Charlie Brown's exclamation - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
• Hamelin problem - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Piper's followers - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• Some rodents - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Subway rodents - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• "Aw, heck!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Charlie Brown cry - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Charlie Brown outburst - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Cry from Charlie Brown - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Hamelin pests - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Informers - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
• "Peanuts" exclamation - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Snitches - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Stool pigeons - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Vermin - used 6 times, most recently in 2020

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.

• Do followers - REMI, used 44 times
• "The __ Piper of Hamelin" - PIED, used 43 times
• Star followers - MAGI, used 36 times
• ___ Piper - PIED, used 34 times
• Tra followers - LALA, used 21 times
• Followers: Suffix - ITES, used 18 times

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