Mechanical being
The crossword clue "Mechanical being" is answered by ROBOT, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1959. 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
ROBOT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ROBOT answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1959. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ROBOT
Every other clue in this collection answered by ROBOT, most used first.
- Automaton - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
- Mechanical man - used 39 times, most recently in 2017
- Man of steel? - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
- Metal man - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Iron man? - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- Mechanical worker - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Assembly-line worker - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- Android - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
- "Lost in Space" character - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
- Metal worker? - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Sci-fi character - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Unpaid factory worker - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
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.
- Time being - NONCE, used 79 times
- Sci-fi being - ALIEN, used 23 times
- Heavenly being - ANGEL, used 20 times
- Being pulled - INTOW, used 18 times
- Came into being - AROSE, used 18 times
- Come into being - ARISE, used 18 times
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