Castling piece

The answer

ROOK

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

Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2024. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ROOK

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

• Chess piece - used 109 times, most recently in 2026
• Corner piece - used 45 times, most recently in 2025
• Castle - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Corner chess piece - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Swindle - used 26 times, most recently in 2021
• Chess castle - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
• Knight's neighbor - used 20 times, most recently in 2023
• Castle, in chess - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Piece next to a knight - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Fleece - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Hornswoggle - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
• Castle-shaped chess piece - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Chess corner piece - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Cheat - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Fischer's castle - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
• Chessboard castle - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Man in the corner - used 6 times, most recently in 2021

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.

• Scrabble piece - TILE, used 223 times
• Mah-jongg piece - TILE, used 133 times
• Piece of cake - SNAP, used 122 times
• "Piece of cake!" - EASY, used 109 times
• Construction piece - IBAR, used 72 times
• Mosaic piece - TILE, used 66 times

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