"What time?"

The answer

WHEN

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

Used 14 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 7 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.

• ISIT (35 uses in xd)

Other clues for WHEN

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

• "At what time?" - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• "Say ___" - used 25 times, most recently in 2023
• Timely question? - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
• A question of time - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• As soon as - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Question of time - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
• Reporter's question - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
• "Stop pouring" - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• "__ pigs fly!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• A question of timing - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• How soon? - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Timely query? - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Reporter's query - used 6 times, most recently in 2020

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.

• At any time - EVER, used 696 times
• A single time - ONCE, used 296 times
• "Once ___ a time ..." - UPON, used 284 times
• "What ___ is new?" - ELSE, used 224 times
• "So what ___ is new?" - ELSE, used 221 times
• A long time - AGES, used 156 times

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