"... not always what they ___"

The answer

SEEM

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

Used 14 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SEEM

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

• Appear - used 451 times, most recently in 2026
• Appear to be - used 294 times, most recently in 2026
• Come across as - used 99 times, most recently in 2026
• Look - used 62 times, most recently in 2026
• Look to be - used 58 times, most recently in 2025
• Come off as - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Look like - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• Apparently are - used 16 times, most recently in 2021
• Give the impression - used 16 times, most recently in 2013
• "Things aren't always what they __" - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• "I ___ to recall ..." - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Look as if - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Have the look of - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Have the appearance of - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Outwardly appear - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• "So it would ___" - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Feel - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Give the appearance of - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Have the looks of - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
• "Things are seldom what they __" - used 6 times, most recently in 2020

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.

• Not fooled by - ONTO, used 444 times
• Not as much - LESS, used 378 times
• Always - EVER, used 362 times
• "What ___ is new?" - ELSE, used 224 times
• "So what ___ is new?" - ELSE, used 221 times
• If not - ELSE, used 199 times

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