"Hold on a second!"

The answer

WAIT

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

Used 11 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2014. It appears in 9 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.

• HEY (1 uses in xd)
• NOTYET (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for WAIT

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

• Be patient - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
• "Hold on!" - used 48 times, most recently in 2025
• Bide one's time - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
• Cool one's heels - used 26 times, most recently in 2023
• "Hold your horses!" - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• "Hold up!" - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Stand in line - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Sit tight - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
• "Hold it!" - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Stand by - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Mark time - used 12 times, most recently in 2015
• "But ___, there's more!" - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Tarry - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
• Delay. - used 8 times, most recently in 1980
• "Hold on a sec!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• "Cool your jets" - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• "Hurry up and ___" - used 6 times, most recently in 2010

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.

• Hold sway - RULE, used 77 times
• "Hold on ___!" - ASEC, used 68 times
• Second to none - BEST, used 58 times
• Eve's second son - ABEL, used 55 times
• Hard to hold - EELY, used 51 times
• "Hold your horses!" - WHOA, used 48 times

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