Thinly scattered
The crossword clue "Thinly scattered" is answered by SPARSE, a 6-letter entry. Used 33 times across 22 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1950. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
SPARSE
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SPARSE answer page.
Used 33 times across 22 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1950. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SPARSE
Every other clue in this collection answered by SPARSE, most used first.
- Thinly distributed - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
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