Rhine tributary
The crossword clue "Rhine tributary" is answered by RUHR, a 4-letter entry. Used 19 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1962. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
RUHR
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RUHR answer page.
Used 19 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1962. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for RUHR
Every other clue in this collection answered by RUHR, most used first.
- German industrial region - used 47 times, most recently in 2023
- German river - used 27 times, most recently in 2024
- Essen's river - used 21 times, most recently in 2020
- River to the Rhine - used 21 times, most recently in 2022
- German industrial valley - used 17 times, most recently in 2021
- Essen's region - used 16 times, most recently in 2018
- Essen's valley - used 16 times, most recently in 2018
- Rhine feeder - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
- German coal valley - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
- German valley - used 11 times, most recently in 2006
- Where Dortmund is. - used 10 times, most recently in 2009
- German mining region - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- German coal region - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Where Essen is. - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
- German industrial area - 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.
- Seine tributary - OISE, used 139 times
- Rhine feeder - AARE, used 65 times
- City on the Rhine - BONN, used 48 times
- Elbe tributary - EGER, used 44 times
- River to the Rhine - AARE, used 38 times
- Rhine tributary - AARE, used 36 times
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