Improvise, in jazz

The answer

VAMP

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the VAMP answer page.

Used 13 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1986. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• SCAT (2 uses in xd)
• FAKE (1 uses in xd)
• RIDE (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for VAMP

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

• Seductress - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
• Improvise musically - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
• Improvise - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Siren - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Coquette - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• Shoe part - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
• Femme fatale - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Improvised accompaniment - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Jazz accompaniment - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Part of a shoe. - used 7 times, most recently in 1987
• Temptress - used 7 times, most recently in 2015

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.

• James of jazz - ETTA, used 137 times
• Jazz singer James - ETTA, used 116 times
• Jazz great Fitzgerald - ELLA, used 95 times
• Jazz singer Anita - ODAY, used 90 times
• Jazz legend Fitzgerald - ELLA, used 85 times
• First name in jazz - ELLA, used 79 times

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