A step up

The answer

RUNG

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

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2009. It appears in 5 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.

• STAIR (4 uses in xd)
• PROMOTION (1 uses in xd)
• RISER (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for RUNG

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

• Ladder step - used 80 times, most recently in 2026
• Ladder part - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
• Step on a ladder - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Ladder piece - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
• Hierarchy level - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
• Ladder crosspiece - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Ladder level - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Part of a ladder - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Ladder segment - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• Step - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Stepladder step - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Crosspiece - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Ladder bar - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Ladder component - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• "Step ___!" - ONIT, used 125 times
• Step ___ (hurry) - ONIT, used 48 times
• Step - PACE, used 16 times
• Step on it! - SOLE, used 16 times
• "Don't take another step!" - HALT, used 12 times
• "Step right __ way!" - THIS, used 12 times

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