Phonetic symbol
The crossword clue "Phonetic symbol" is answered by SCHWA, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1967. It appears in 4 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 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1967. It appears in 4 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
- Neutral vowel sound - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
- 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
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.
- Tribal symbol - TOTEM, used 61 times
- Clan symbol - TOTEM, used 56 times
- Symbol of slowness - SNAIL, used 40 times
- Insertion symbol - CARET, used 33 times
- Symbol of strength - STEEL, used 27 times
- American symbol - EAGLE, used 24 times
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