Hardly scarce
The crossword clue "Hardly scarce" is answered by RIFE, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
RIFE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RIFE answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for RIFE
Every other clue in this collection answered by RIFE, most used first.
- Widespread - used 94 times, most recently in 2026
- Abundant - used 81 times, most recently in 2026
- Teeming - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
- Prevalent - used 57 times, most recently in 2014
- Teeming (with) - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
- Abounding - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Plentiful - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Rampant - used 18 times, most recently in 2022
- Overflowing (with) - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- In widespread use - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
- Overrun (with) - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Crawling (with) - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Overflowing - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Swarming - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- In great supply - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Overabundant - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
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.
- Scarce - RARE, used 83 times
- Hardly __ (rarely) - EVER, used 47 times
- Hardly any - ATAD, used 28 times
- "__ hardly wait!" - ICAN, used 26 times
- Hardly at all - ATAD, used 23 times
- Hardly thrilling - BLAH, used 14 times
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