Tiny stream

The answer

RILL

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

Used 19 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1967. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• RILLET (3 uses in xd)
• RUNLET (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for RILL

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

• Small brook - used 101 times, most recently in 2026
• Small stream - used 92 times, most recently in 2026
• Streamlet - used 91 times, most recently in 2025
• Brooklet - used 53 times, most recently in 2018
• Brook - used 42 times, most recently in 2015
• Lunar valley - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• Moon valley - used 21 times, most recently in 2012
• Rivulet - used 19 times, most recently in 2006
• Little brook - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Stream. - used 12 times, most recently in 2005
• Junior brook - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Lunar trench - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
• Runnel. - used 7 times, most recently in 1985
• Little stream - used 6 times, most recently in 2023

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• Tiny amount - IOTA, used 167 times
• Tiny particle - ATOM, used 96 times
• Tiny bit - ATOM, used 58 times
• Tiny skin opening - PORE, used 55 times
• Tiny branch - TWIG, used 51 times

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