Wilson predecessor

The answer

TAFT

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

Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2008. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for TAFT

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

• Wilson's predecessor - used 44 times, most recently in 2025
• President before Wilson - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• 27th president - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• 27th U.S. president - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• 1920s chief justice - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
• Heaviest U.S. president - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• White House name. - used 13 times, most recently in 1976
• "Dollar Diplomacy" president - used 11 times, most recently in 2017
• Roosevelt's successor - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Former Chief Justice. - used 7 times, most recently in 1970
• Chief justice before Hughes - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• __-Hartley Act - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
• Last mustachioed president - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• President who became Chief Justice - used 6 times, most recently in 2023

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.

• Carson's predecessor - PAAR, used 82 times
• Carson predecessor - PAAR, used 57 times
• Actor Wilson - OWEN, used 49 times
• Fallon's predecessor - LENO, used 48 times
• Ashcroft's predecessor - RENO, used 38 times
• Mamie's predecessor - BESS, used 27 times

Search the clue collection

Search by clue words or by answer, or type a pattern with the letters you have and a blank for each square you do not know. The characters _ ? . and - all work as blanks.