Former Iranian rulers
The crossword clue "Former Iranian rulers" is answered by SHAHS, a 5-letter entry. Used 21 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1979. 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
SHAHS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SHAHS answer page.
Used 21 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1979. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SHAHS
Every other clue in this collection answered by SHAHS, most used first.
- Persian rulers - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Persian potentates - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Former Iranian leaders - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Persian kings - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Bygone rulers - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Former Iranian monarchs - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Persian bigwigs - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Former anesthetic - ETHER, used 38 times
- Former Russian rulers - TSARS, used 37 times
- Rulers - TSARS, used 33 times
- Former - PRIOR, used 32 times
- Russian rulers - TSARS, used 30 times
- Former capital of Japan - KYOTO, used 26 times
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