Inflection
The crossword clue "Inflection" is answered by TONE, a 4-letter entry. Used 24 times across 18 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1951. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
TONE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TONE answer page.
Used 24 times across 18 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1951. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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