As long as
The crossword clue "As long as" is answered by WHILE, a 5-letter entry. Used 16 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1955. 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
WHILE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the WHILE answer page.
Used 16 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1955. 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.
- WHILST (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for WHILE
Every other clue in this collection answered by WHILE, most used first.
- During - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Even though - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- During the time that - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
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.
- Long (for) - YEARN, used 99 times
- Long stories - SAGAS, used 95 times
- Long look - STARE, used 89 times
- Long - YEARN, used 79 times
- Long lock - TRESS, used 56 times
- Long Island town - ISLIP, used 47 times
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