Basic chord
The crossword clue "Basic chord" is answered by TRIAD, a 5-letter entry. Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TRIAD
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TRIAD answer page.
Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TRIAD
Every other clue in this collection answered by TRIAD, most used first.
- Three-note chord - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- Group of three - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Musical chord - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
- Threesome - used 26 times, most recently in 2024
- Simple chord - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
- Common chord - used 21 times, most recently in 2022
- Three-tone chord - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- C-E-G, e.g. - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Chord. - used 8 times, most recently in 2003
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