Part of a comparison
The crossword clue "Part of a comparison" is answered by THAN, a 4-letter entry. Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
THAN
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the THAN answer page.
Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1997. 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
- 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
- "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.
- Part of Q.E.D. - ERAT, used 477 times
- Part of A.D. - ANNO, used 301 times
- Part of QED - ERAT, used 274 times
- Molecule part - ATOM, used 269 times
- Eye part - IRIS, used 242 times
- Hammer part - PEEN, used 208 times
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