What it takes to tango

The answer

TWO

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TWO answer page.

Used 24 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1987. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for TWO

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

• Pair - used 107 times, most recently in 2026
• Binary base - used 91 times, most recently in 2026
• Deuce - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
• Tango requirement - used 38 times, most recently in 2024
• A couple - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• A pair of - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Brace - used 30 times, most recently in 2016
• Couple - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Early afternoon - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Afternoon hour - used 29 times, most recently in 2023

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.

• "What did I tell you?" - SEE, used 155 times
• "In what way?" - HOW, used 93 times
• "What Kind of Fool __?" - AMI, used 90 times
• "Say what?" - HUH, used 89 times
• "What have we here?!" - OHO, used 84 times
• "What ___, chopped liver?" - AMI, used 77 times

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