Open with a letter opener

The answer

SLIT

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

Used 12 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2017. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SLIT

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

• Narrow cut - used 186 times, most recently in 2026
• Narrow opening - used 151 times, most recently in 2026
• Skirt feature - used 82 times, most recently in 2026
• Thin cut - used 58 times, most recently in 2026
• Cut - used 46 times, most recently in 2025
• Buttonhole, e.g. - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• Use a letter opener - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
• Thin opening - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Skirt opening - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Buttonhole, essentially - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
• Aperture - used 16 times, most recently in 2016
• Feature of some skirts - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Narrow aperture - used 15 times, most recently in 2013
• Small cut - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Alluring skirt feature - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Buttonhole - used 13 times, most recently in 2018
• Open, as an envelope - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• Small opening - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Gill opening - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Incision - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Revealing skirt feature - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
• Long, narrow cut - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Sexy skirt feature - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Alluring dress feature - used 8 times, most recently in 2010
• Narrow gap - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• Razor cut - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Slash. - used 8 times, most recently in 1982
• Vent. - used 8 times, most recently in 2004
• Gash - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
• Skirt cut - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Small incision - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Fine cut - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Fissure - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Opening - used 6 times, most recently in 2006

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.

• Slightly open - AJAR, used 322 times
• Prefix with dynamic - AERO, used 152 times
• Share a border with - ABUT, used 152 times
• Letter opener - DEAR, used 150 times
• Done with - OVER, used 145 times
• Greek letter - IOTA, used 140 times

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