Neutral vowel sound
The crossword clue "Neutral vowel sound" is answered by SCHWA, a 5-letter entry. Used 17 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SCHWA
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SCHWA answer page.
Used 17 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SCHWA
Every other clue in this collection answered by SCHWA, most used first.
- Unstressed vowel - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Pronunciation symbol - used 17 times, most recently in 2018
- Inverted "e" - used 16 times, most recently in 2018
- Vowel sound - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Unstressed vowel sound - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Neutral middle vowel - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Upside-down "e" - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Vowel sound represented by an upside-down "e" - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Phonetic symbol - used 7 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.
- Sneeze sound - ACHOO, used 130 times
- Runs in neutral - IDLES, used 72 times
- Trolley sound - CLANG, used 70 times
- Sound - AUDIO, used 61 times
- Derisive sound - SNORT, used 55 times
- Sound of a sneeze - ACHOO, used 55 times
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