Japan's national sport
The crossword clue "Japan's national sport" is answered by SUMO, a 4-letter entry. Used 17 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2018. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SUMO
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SUMO answer page.
Used 17 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2018. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SUMO
Every other clue in this collection answered by SUMO, most used first.
- Japanese wrestling - used 118 times, most recently in 2026
- Wrestling style - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
- Japanese wrestling form - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Japanese sport - used 37 times, most recently in 2025
- Sport in a ring - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- National sport of Japan - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Sapporo sport - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Japanese national sport - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Kind of wrestling - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
- Sport for heavyweights - used 12 times, most recently in 2018
- Japanese wrestling style - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Type of wrestling - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Ring sport - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Form of wrestling - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Rikishi's sport - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Ring contest - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Clash of heavyweights - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Japanese form of wrestling - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Sport that takes place in a dohyo - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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