Lacking muscle
The crossword clue "Lacking muscle" is answered by WEAK, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
WEAK
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the WEAK answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for WEAK
Every other clue in this collection answered by WEAK, most used first.
- Watered down - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Feeble - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Frail - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Diluted - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Lacking strength - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Overly diluted - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Not strong - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Flimsy - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Ineffectual - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
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.
- Muscle quality - TONE, used 139 times
- Lacking slack - TAUT, used 126 times
- Shoulder muscle, for short - DELT, used 87 times
- Lacking color - PALE, used 85 times
- Lacking - SANS, used 78 times
- Muscle soreness - ACHE, used 47 times
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