"Faster __ a speeding bullet"

The answer

THAN

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

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 4 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
• Better safe ___ sorry - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• When compared with - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Better __ ever - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• 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.

• Gait faster than a walk - TROT, used 25 times
• Bullet point - ITEM, used 21 times
• Bullet - SLUG, used 11 times
• Speeding penalty - FINE, used 8 times
• "Faster! Faster!" - GOGO, used 7 times
• Ricocheting bullet sound - PING, used 6 times

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