Word before cotta or firma

The answer

TERRA

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

Used 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for TERRA

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

• ___ firma - used 214 times, most recently in 2025
• ___ cotta - used 162 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ incognita - used 63 times, most recently in 2026
• Caesar's land - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Latin land - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Earth - used 25 times, most recently in 2023
• __ firma; dry land - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Earth, in sci-fi - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• __ firma; solid ground - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Land - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• ___ alba (gypsum) - used 13 times, most recently in 2007
• Earth, literally - used 12 times, most recently in 2007
• Livy's land - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
• Earth: Lat. - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
• Earth, in some sci-fi - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Land in Rome - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

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• Commandment word - SHALT, used 49 times
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