Brief instant
The crossword clue "Brief instant" is answered by TRICE, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TRICE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TRICE answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for TRICE
Every other clue in this collection answered by TRICE, most used first.
- Instant - used 67 times, most recently in 2023
- Jiffy - used 25 times, most recently in 2020
- Moment - used 20 times, most recently in 2021
- Brief moment - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
- Blink of an eye - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Very short time - used 14 times, most recently in 2020
- Twinkling - used 10 times, most recently in 2014
- Split second - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Short time - used 7 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.
- Brief brawl - SETTO, used 42 times
- Brief - SHORT, used 30 times
- Brief fight - SETTO, used 29 times
- Brief appearance - CAMEO, used 26 times
- Brief argument - SETTO, used 25 times
- Brief tussle - SETTO, used 23 times
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