Being of service
The crossword clue "Being of service" is answered by UTILE, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
UTILE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the UTILE answer page.
Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for UTILE
Every other clue in this collection answered by UTILE, most used first.
- Practical - used 110 times, most recently in 2025
- Functional - used 61 times, most recently in 2026
- Of service - used 58 times, most recently in 2025
- Serviceable - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
- Handy - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
- Useful - used 39 times, most recently in 2022
- Serving a purpose - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Helpful - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
- Of value - used 20 times, most recently in 2018
- Beneficial - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Advantageous - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Of practical value - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Of some benefit - used 11 times, most recently in 2016
- Worth having - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- Serving some purpose - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Worth keeping - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Far from worthless - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Helpful, as a tool - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Of use - used 6 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.
- Time being - NONCE, used 79 times
- Sci-fi being - ALIEN, used 23 times
- Be of service to - AVAIL, used 22 times
- Postal Service symbol - EAGLE, used 21 times
- Heavenly being - ANGEL, used 20 times
- Being pulled - INTOW, used 18 times
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