Sweet potato relative
The crossword clue "Sweet potato relative" is answered by YAM, a 3-letter entry. Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2018. 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
YAM
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the YAM answer page.
Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2018. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for YAM
Every other clue in this collection answered by YAM, most used first.
- Sweet potato - used 111 times, most recently in 2026
- Thanksgiving veggie - used 74 times, most recently in 2026
- Candied veggie - used 73 times, most recently in 2026
- Orange tuber - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
- Thanksgiving tuber - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- Starchy tuber - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- Sweet potato kin - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Orange veggie - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Thanksgiving side dish - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Candied tuber - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Vegetable. - used 18 times, most recently in 1973
- Tasty tuber - used 17 times, most recently in 2022
- Edible tuber - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Thanksgiving vegetable - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Verb for Popeye - used 16 times, most recently in 2021
- Thanksgiving staple - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- Holiday veggie - used 12 times, most recently in 2020
- Sweet tuber - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Edible root - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
- Candied Thanksgiving vegetable - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Sweet potato cousin - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Sweet potato lookalike - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Orange root vegetable - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Orange vegetable - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Candied treat - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Holiday tuber - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Orange Thanksgiving vegetable - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Starchy side dish - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Thanksgiving serving - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Turkey Day tuber - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Yellow Thanksgiving veggie - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Reggae relative - SKA, used 158 times
- Whisper sweet nothings - COO, used 65 times
- Moose relative - ELK, used 52 times
- Ostrich relative - EMU, used 49 times
- Stout relative - ALE, used 38 times
- Mr. Potato Head piece - EAR, used 37 times
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