Dovetail wedge
The crossword clue "Dovetail wedge" is answered by TENON, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1978. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TENON
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TENON answer page.
Used 10 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1978. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TENON
Every other clue in this collection answered by TENON, most used first.
- Mortise insert - used 62 times, most recently in 2025
- Mortise mate - used 40 times, most recently in 2021
- Mortise partner - used 35 times, most recently in 2025
- Mortise's partner - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Mortise's mate - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Dovetail part - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Mortise insertion - used 18 times, most recently in 2021
- Joint part - used 16 times, most recently in 2020
- Carpentry joint - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Part of a joint - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
- Carpentry joint part - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Join securely - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
- Mortise and ___ - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Part of a furniture joint - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Mortise companion - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
- Mortise fit - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Part of a dovetail - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Part of a dovetail joint - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
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.
- Wedge-shaped mark - CARET, used 9 times
- Wedge-shaped diacritical mark - HACEK, used 8 times
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