Common chord
The crossword clue "Common chord" is answered by TRIAD, a 5-letter entry. Used 21 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1968. It appears in 10 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 21 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1968. It appears in 10 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
- Basic chord - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- 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
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.
- Less common - RARER, used 151 times
- "Common Sense" author - PAINE, used 62 times
- Not as common - RARER, used 41 times
- Common contraction - ARENT, used 40 times
- "Common Sense" writer - PAINE, used 37 times
- "Common Sense" pamphleteer - PAINE, used 25 times
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