Extreme severity
The crossword clue "Extreme severity" is answered by RIGOR, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
RIGOR
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RIGOR answer page.
Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for RIGOR
Every other clue in this collection answered by RIGOR, most used first.
- Severity - used 111 times, most recently in 2026
- Strictness - used 78 times, most recently in 2026
- Hardship - used 39 times, most recently in 2019
- Austerity - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Inflexibility - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
- Harshness - used 20 times, most recently in 2023
- Extreme hardship - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Stiffness - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Strict precision - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Difficulty - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
- Exactitude - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Stringency - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Attention to detail - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- _____ mortis - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Asperity - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Excessive sternness - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Lack of laxness - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
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.
- Extreme - ULTRA, used 197 times
- Extreme pain - AGONY, used 31 times
- Esteem to the extreme - ADORE, used 16 times
- Extreme diets - FASTS, used 14 times
- Extreme enthusiasm - MANIA, used 12 times
- Extreme suffering - AGONY, used 10 times
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