Steam engine inventor
The crossword clue "Steam engine inventor" is answered by WATT, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
WATT
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Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for WATT
Every other clue in this collection answered by WATT, most used first.
- Power unit - used 77 times, most recently in 2026
- Light bulb unit - used 67 times, most recently in 2026
- Unit of power - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Lightbulb unit - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Electrical unit - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
- Bulb measure - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Bulb unit - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
- Light bulb measure - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Scottish inventor - used 21 times, most recently in 2017
- Power measure - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- "W" on a light bulb - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Bit of power - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- One joule per second - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Steam-engine pioneer - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Unit of electricity - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- 1/746 horsepower - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Interior Secretary under Reagan - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
- Lightbulb measure - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Electrical power unit - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Joule per second - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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.
- Let off steam - VENT, used 76 times
- Guns the engine - REVS, used 67 times
- Blow off steam - VENT, used 63 times
- Inventor Sikorsky - IGOR, used 59 times
- Lose steam - TIRE, used 58 times
- Guns, as an engine - REVS, used 53 times
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