"Not exactly"
The crossword clue ""Not exactly"" is answered by SORTA, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SORTA
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SORTA answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 2 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 SORTA
Every other clue in this collection answered by SORTA, most used first.
- Kinda - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
- "Ish" - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
- In a way, informally - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
- Somewhat, informally - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- More or less, informally - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- In a way - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Somewhat, slangily - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- In a way, slangily - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- "More or less" - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Rather, informally - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
- Not exactly, informally - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
- In a way, in a way - used 12 times, most recently in 2018
- A bit, colloquially - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
- "Yes and no" - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Somewhat - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Somewhat, casually - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- In a way, casually - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- To a degree, informally - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Somewhat, colloquially - used 6 times, most recently in 2007
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 quite right - AMISS, used 181 times
- Not a soul - NOONE, used 131 times
- Not together - APART, used 116 times
- Not moving - INERT, used 102 times
- Not as many - FEWER, used 69 times
- Not suitable - INAPT, used 65 times
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