Big first for a baby

The answer

STEP

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

Used 41 times across 20 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 14 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for STEP

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

• Dance move - used 190 times, most recently in 2026
• Short distance - used 100 times, most recently in 2026
• Part of a process - used 84 times, most recently in 2026
• Ladder rung - used 79 times, most recently in 2026
• Staircase part - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
• Dance unit - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
• Rung - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
• Dance lesson - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
• Footfall - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Pedometer unit - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Rung of a ladder - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Escalator part - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Bit of choreography - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Dance bit - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
• Part of a staircase - used 27 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• For fear that - LEST, used 503 times
• Change for a five - ONES, used 272 times
• "What's ___ for me?" - INIT, used 264 times
• Big rig - SEMI, used 251 times
• Shrek, for one - OGRE, used 244 times
• First place - EDEN, used 215 times

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