In widespread use

The answer

RIFE

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

Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1987. It appears in 6 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
• 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
• Hardly scarce - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• In great supply - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Overabundant - used 6 times, most recently in 2014

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