Kind of cheese

The answer

SWISS

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SWISS answer page.

Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2004; first recorded in 1960. 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

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• EDAM (14 uses in xd)
• BLEU (9 uses in xd)
• BRIE (9 uses in xd)
• GOAT (4 uses in xd)
• COTTAGE (3 uses in xd)

Other clues for SWISS

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

• Cheese choice - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• Holey cheese - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Cheese with holes - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Reuben cheese - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Reuben layer - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Bern-born - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Like Heidi - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• Type of cheese - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• Reuben ingredient - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Cheese type - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• Ham partner - used 6 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.

• Kind of acid - AMINO, used 116 times
• Kind of committee - ADHOC, used 102 times
• Kind of wave - TIDAL, used 74 times
• Dutch cheese - GOUDA, used 72 times
• Kind of energy - SOLAR, used 67 times
• Kind of boom - SONIC, used 65 times

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