Genetic attribute

The answer

TRAIT

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

Used 17 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 8 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
• Feature - used 16 times, most recently in 2021
• Property - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
• Mannerism - used 13 times, most recently in 2017
• Blue eyes or baldness, e.g. - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• 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

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.

• Genetic duplicate - CLONE, used 27 times
• Genetic copy - CLONE, used 22 times
• Positive attribute - ASSET, used 20 times
• Genetic double - CLONE, used 8 times
• Circus lady's attribute - BEARD, used 6 times
• Desirable attribute - ASSET, used 6 times

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