Stand in line

The answer

WAIT

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

Used 16 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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
• 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
• "Hold on a second!" - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• "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.

• Top-of-the-line - AONE, used 137 times
• Toe the line - OBEY, used 116 times
• Let it stand - STET, used 108 times
• Picket line crosser - SCAB, used 103 times
• Stand up - RISE, used 92 times
• Story line - PLOT, used 89 times

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