"... or so ___ say"

The answer

THEY

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

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2011. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for THEY

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

• He and she - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ went thataway!" - used 28 times, most recently in 2022
• Those people - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• "So ___ say" - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• Gender-neutral pronoun - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Those folks - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Nonbinary pronoun - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• People generally. - used 15 times, most recently in 2006
• Unnamed ones - used 15 times, most recently in 2021
• People in general - used 14 times, most recently in 2017
• ___/them pronouns - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Yon folks - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• "What will ___ think of next?" - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ Might Be Giants - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• ". . . the harder __ fall" - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• ___/them - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Group's pronoun - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Pronoun. - used 7 times, most recently in 1974
• "___ also serve . . . " - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
• ___ Might Be Giants (rock band) - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Unnamed others - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• "Sad to say ..." - ALAS, used 250 times
• "What ___ can I say?" - ELSE, used 116 times
• Say it isn't so - DENY, used 113 times
• Say it's so - AVER, used 97 times
• "You can say that again!" - AMEN, used 93 times
• "Sorry to say . . ." - ALAS, used 84 times

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