E-mail forerunner
The crossword clue "E-mail forerunner" is answered by TELEX, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TELEX
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Used 8 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for TELEX
Every other clue in this collection answered by TELEX, most used first.
- Fax forerunner - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
- Fax ancestor - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
- Fax predecessor - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- E-mail predecessor - used 8 times, most recently in 2008
- Fax precursor - used 8 times, most recently in 2010
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.
- Puts in the mail - SENDS, used 50 times
- Mail - ARMOR, used 32 times
- Windows forerunner - MSDOS, used 29 times
- Nintendo forerunner - ATARI, used 23 times
- Drops in the mail - SENDS, used 19 times
- Contest mail-in - ENTRY, used 17 times
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