Leg bone
The crossword clue "Leg bone" is answered by SHIN, a 4-letter entry. Used 21 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1959. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SHIN
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SHIN answer page.
Used 21 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1959. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for SHIN
Every other clue in this collection answered by SHIN, most used first.
- Leg part - used 58 times, most recently in 2026
- Tibia's place - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Part of the leg - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Lower leg part - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Tibia - used 26 times, most recently in 2022
- Climb, in a way - used 23 times, most recently in 2020
- Knee neighbor - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Lower leg - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Kicker's target - used 16 times, most recently in 2015
- Knee/ankle connector - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Part of the lower leg - used 15 times, most recently in 2020
- Bone below the knee - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Place for a guard - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Ankle-knee connector - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Climb, as a pole - used 11 times, most recently in 2008
- Tibia setting - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Knee-to-ankle bone - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Climb - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
- Front of the lower leg - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Climb, as a tree - used 8 times, most recently in 2009
- It's just over a foot - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
- Tibia locale - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- __ guard - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Knee-ankle connection - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
- Knee-to-ankle area - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Tibia's locale - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Tibia's location - 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.
- Arm bone - ULNA, used 409 times
- Forearm bone - ULNA, used 317 times
- Leg joint - KNEE, used 250 times
- Bone-dry - ARID, used 167 times
- Bone: Prefix - OSTE, used 156 times
- Bad to the bone - EVIL, used 115 times
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