Ruth's retired number

The answer

THREE

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

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1991. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for THREE

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

• Midafternoon - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
• Number of Little Pigs - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• First odd prime - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Babe Ruth's number - used 18 times, most recently in 2019
• Afternoon hour - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Midafternoon hour - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Second prime - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• A crowd. - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
• ". . . and baby makes ___" - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
• "__ Blind Mice" - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Crowd quorum - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Low digit - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• A one and a two - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• "___ Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Crowd number - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
• Cube root of 27 - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Storied bear contingent - used 6 times, most recently in 2014

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.

• Ruth's mother-in-law - NAOMI, used 87 times
• Page number - FOLIO, used 36 times
• "___ the loneliest number" - ONEIS, used 34 times
• Lucky number - SEVEN, used 22 times
• Old number? - ETHER, used 20 times
• Nostalgic number - OLDIE, used 16 times

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