Blue eyes or baldness, e.g.

The answer

TRAIT

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

Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for TRAIT

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

• Characteristic - used 226 times, most recently in 2026
• Attribute - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Peculiarity - used 22 times, most recently in 2011
• Quality - used 21 times, most recently in 2024
• Genetic attribute - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Feature - used 16 times, most recently in 2021
• Property - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
• Mannerism - used 13 times, most recently in 2017
• Distinguishing attribute - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
• Genetic characteristic - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Distinguishing feature - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
• Blue eyes, e.g. - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Distinguishing characteristic - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Genetic inheritance - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Inherited characteristic - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Personal characteristic - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

Related clues

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• Blue hue - AZURE, used 68 times
• True-blue - LOYAL, used 56 times
• Blue Ribbon brewer - PABST, used 43 times
• Blue-pencils - EDITS, used 42 times
• "Blue ___ Shoes" - SUEDE, used 35 times

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