Fern-to-be
The crossword clue "Fern-to-be" is answered by SPORE, a 5-letter entry. Used 18 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SPORE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SPORE answer page.
Used 18 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SPORE
Every other clue in this collection answered by SPORE, most used first.
- Fern seed - used 40 times, most recently in 2025
- Germ cell - used 33 times, most recently in 2007
- Future fungus - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Future fern - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Seed - used 21 times, most recently in 2012
- Reproductive body - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Mushroom-to-be - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Mushroom's reproductive cell - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Future mushroom - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Germ - used 9 times, most recently in 2008
- Mold's origin - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Mushroom seed - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
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.
- Fern leaf - FROND, used 28 times
- Fern part - FROND, used 9 times
- Fern feature - FROND, used 8 times
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