Sign of use
The crossword clue "Sign of use" is answered by WEAR, a 4-letter entry. Used 14 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1963. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
WEAR
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the WEAR answer page.
Used 14 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1963. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for WEAR
Every other clue in this collection answered by WEAR, most used first.
- Have on - used 134 times, most recently in 2026
- Sport - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
- Put on - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
- Tear's partner - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Be dressed in - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Dress in - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Erode - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
- ___ and tear - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Become tiresome - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Day-to-day deterioration - used 13 times, most recently in 2015
- Don - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Last. - used 12 times, most recently in 2002
- Become frayed - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Deterioration - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
- Grow tiresome - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Wash-and-___ - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Become threadbare - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Deteriorate through use - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Fatigue - used 7 times, most recently in 1996
- Sign of age - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Apparel - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- __ away; erode - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- "I haven't a thing to ___!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
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.
- Sign - OMEN, used 196 times
- Sign of the future - OMEN, used 174 times
- Sign of things to come - OMEN, used 164 times
- Sign of healing - SCAB, used 121 times
- Foreboding sign - OMEN, used 119 times
- Diner sign - EATS, used 114 times
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