Helen of __ (mythical abductee)

The answer

TROY

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TROY answer page.

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2018. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for TROY

Every other clue in this collection answered by TROY, most used first.

• Helen's home - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
• "Iliad" setting - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Helen of ___ - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
• City on the Hudson. - used 31 times, most recently in 2014
• "Iliad" city - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Hector's home - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• "Iliad" locale - used 16 times, most recently in 2017
• City of Paris - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• City tricked by a wooden horse - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Weight system - used 12 times, most recently in 2007
• 2004 Brad Pitt film - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
• Helen's city - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
• Ilium - used 11 times, most recently in 2005
• Where Paris took Helen - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
• "Aeneid" city - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Priam's kingdom - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Avoirdupois alternative - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• Home to Paris - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Hudson River city - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• City in "The Iliad" - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Kind of weight - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• New York city - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• "The Iliad" setting - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Where Helen was taken - used 6 times, most recently in 2019

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.

• Helen of Troy's mother - LEDA, used 71 times
• Mother of Helen of Troy - LEDA, used 60 times
• Mythical ship - ARGO, used 44 times
• Mythical birds - ROCS, used 42 times
• Mythical river - STYX, used 29 times
• Mythical archer - EROS, used 28 times

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