Confute
The crossword clue "Confute" is answered by REBUT, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1971. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
REBUT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the REBUT answer page.
Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1971. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for REBUT
Every other clue in this collection answered by REBUT, most used first.
- Contradict - used 32 times, most recently in 2022
- Disprove - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Argue against - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Counter - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Counter an argument - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
- Counter, as an argument - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
- Counter in a debate - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Show to be false - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Explain away - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Try to disprove - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
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- Happen again - RECUR, used 182 times
- Kingdom - REALM, used 179 times
- Brings up - REARS, used 173 times
- Of the kidneys - RENAL, used 166 times
- Washer cycle - RINSE, used 165 times
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