Poetic contraction.
The crossword clue "Poetic contraction." is answered by TWAS, a 4-letter entry. Used 32 times across 22 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
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Used 32 times across 22 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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- Common contraction - ISNT, used 29 times
- Poetic adverb - ANON, used 26 times
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