Writer Philip

The answer

ROTH

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

Used 10 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ROTH

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

• Portnoy's creator - used 45 times, most recently in 2025
• "Portnoy's Complaint" author - used 32 times, most recently in 2018
• "Goodbye, Columbus" author - used 28 times, most recently in 2019
• Type of IRA - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• IRA type - used 24 times, most recently in 2024
• Kind of IRA - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• __ IRA - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• IRA variety - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• "Goodbye, Columbus" author Philip - used 14 times, most recently in 2019
• "Portnoy's Complaint" author Philip - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• IRA name - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Van Halen's David Lee ___ - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Author Philip - used 6 times, most recently in 2016

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.

• Writer Wiesel - ELIE, used 231 times
• Writer Ferber - EDNA, used 117 times
• Writer Bombeck - ERMA, used 116 times
• Writer Rice - ANNE, used 100 times
• Writer Bagnold - ENID, used 88 times
• Writer Ephron - NORA, used 86 times

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