Gentle, as a horse

The answer

TAME

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

Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for TAME

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

• Domesticated - used 123 times, most recently in 2026
• Docile - used 95 times, most recently in 2026
• Domesticate - used 85 times, most recently in 2026
• Unexciting - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
• Subdue - used 47 times, most recently in 2023
• Not wild - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
• Unlikely to bite - used 40 times, most recently in 2021
• No longer wild - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Bring under control - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Get under control - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Easy to handle - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Gentle - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• Not feral - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Not very exciting - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Subdued - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Easy to manage - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Insipid - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
• Break - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Mild - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Not at all wild - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Broken - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
• Break, in a way - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Not likely to bite - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Not particularly exciting - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Under control - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Break, as a horse - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• Dull - used 8 times, most recently in 1983
• Far from shocking - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Like petting zoo animals - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Broken, in a way - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Broken to the saddle - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Hardly racy - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
• Lacking spice - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Make docile - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Spiritless - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Tone down - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Tractable - used 7 times, most recently in 1997
• G-rated - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Hardly risque - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Housebroken - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• Make gentle - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• No longer feral - 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.

• "I could ___ horse!" - EATA, used 102 times
• Female horse - MARE, used 97 times
• Horse color - ROAN, used 89 times
• Small horse - PONY, used 74 times
• Reddish horse - ROAN, used 70 times
• Young horse - FOAL, used 61 times

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