Destroyer designation
The crossword clue "Destroyer designation" is answered by USS, a 3-letter entry. Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2007. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
USS
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the USS answer page.
Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2007. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for USS
Every other clue in this collection answered by USS, most used first.
- Battleship letters - used 124 times, most recently in 2026
- ___ Enterprise - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
- Naval initials - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Naval letters - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Enterprise letters - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Constitution letters - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Ship letters - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
- Carrier letters - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- ___ Constitution - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Battleship designation - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Aircraft carrier letters - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Destroyer letters - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Enterprise initials - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- Fleet letters - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Letters at sea - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
- Navy vessel letters - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Seagoing initials - used 9 times, most recently in 1993
- Seagoing letters - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Aircraft-carrier designation - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
- ___ Arizona - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Battleship initials - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Constitution opener? - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Constitution lead-in - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Cruiser letters - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Enterprise inits. - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Ship initials - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
- Sub letters - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
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