Better safe ___ sorry

The answer

THAN

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

Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for THAN

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

• Comparative word - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
• Compared to - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
• Comparison word - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
• As compared to - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Holier-___-thou - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• "Better late ___ never" - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• "Easier said ___ done" - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Compared with - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Word of comparison - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Larger ___ life - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
• Conjunction. - used 17 times, most recently in 1978
• "Better you ___ me!" - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Part of a comparison - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• Word in a comparison - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• "Younger ___ Springtime" - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
• Better __ nothing - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Word used in comparisons - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• When compared with - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Better __ ever - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• "Faster __ a speeding bullet" - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Instead of - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Comparative conjunction - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Lighter -- air - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• When compared to - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Word in comparisons - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Word with more or less - 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.

• Get better - HEAL, used 156 times
• Feel sorry for - PITY, used 89 times
• "Sorry to say . . ." - ALAS, used 84 times
• On the safe side - ALEE, used 56 times
• "Better ___ than never" - LATE, used 42 times
• "__ bigger and better things!" - ONTO, used 31 times

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