Very short time
The crossword clue "Very short time" is answered by TRICE, a 5-letter entry. Used 14 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1969. 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
TRICE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TRICE answer page.
Used 14 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1969. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- HEARTBEAT (1 uses in xd)
- MILLISECOND (1 uses in xd)
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
- Twinkling - used 10 times, most recently in 2014
- Split second - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Brief instant - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- 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.
- One more time - AGAIN, used 115 times
- Play for time - STALL, used 113 times
- ___ a time - ONEAT, used 91 times
- Time being - NONCE, used 79 times
- Old-time anesthetic - ETHER, used 76 times
- Short-tempered - TESTY, used 76 times
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