Helpful, as a tool
The crossword clue "Helpful, as a tool" is answered by UTILE, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1987. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
UTILE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the UTILE answer page.
Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1987. It appears in 3 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
- Being of service - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- 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
- 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.
- Boring tool - AUGER, used 98 times
- Lawn tool - EDGER, used 78 times
- Digging tool - SPADE, used 66 times
- Garden tool - SPADE, used 60 times
- Helpful - OFUSE, used 56 times
- Turning tool - LATHE, used 40 times
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