Lack

The answer

WANT

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

Used 15 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1924. It appears in 8 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.

• NEED (51 uses in xd)
• DEARTH (31 uses in xd)
• ABSENCE (20 uses in xd)
• HAVENT (6 uses in xd)
• HAVENOT (3 uses in xd)

Other clues for WANT

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

• Desire - used 110 times, most recently in 2026
• Long for - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Crave - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Have a yen for - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
• Poverty - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
• Covet - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Fancy - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Would like to have - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Have a craving for - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Wish for - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Kind of ad - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
• Desire to have - 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.

• Lack of difficulty - EASE, used 82 times
• Rolling stone's lack - MOSS, used 57 times
• Lack - NEED, used 51 times
• Venus de Milo's lack - ARMS, used 45 times
• Carbon monoxide's lack - ODOR, used 22 times
• Lack of objectivity - BIAS, used 21 times

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