Lower leg bone

The answer

TIBIA

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

Used 11 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2016. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• SHIN (5 uses in xd)

Other clues for TIBIA

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

• Leg bone - used 134 times, most recently in 2026
• Shinbone - used 96 times, most recently in 2026
• Knee-to-ankle bone - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Fibula neighbor - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Knee-ankle connector - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Part of the leg - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
• Bone in the leg - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
• Second-longest human bone - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
• Fibula's neighbor - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
• Shin bone - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Big bone - used 7 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• Bone: Prefix - OSTEO, used 90 times
• Leg joints - KNEES, used 77 times
• Of an arm bone - ULNAR, used 60 times
• Prefix meaning "bone" - OSTEO, used 39 times
• Of a pelvic bone - ILIAC, used 36 times
• Lower - ABASE, used 35 times

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