Be dependent (on)

The answer

RELY

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

Used 29 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• NEED (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for RELY

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

• Depend (on) - used 417 times, most recently in 2026
• Depend - used 286 times, most recently in 2026
• Count (on) - used 167 times, most recently in 2026
• Bank (on) - used 127 times, most recently in 2026
• Lean (on) - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
• Hinge (on) - used 49 times, most recently in 2025
• Be dependent - used 41 times, most recently in 2026

Related clues

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• Harvest - REAP, used 415 times
• Make over - REDO, used 404 times
• Puerto ___ - RICO, used 402 times
• Bring up - REAR, used 387 times

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