Class-ring inscription

The answer

YEAR

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

Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1978. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for YEAR

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

• Calendar span - used 67 times, most recently in 2026
• Once around the sun - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
• Four seasons - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Calendar quota - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Wine bottle datum - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
• Orbital period - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
• Twelve months - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Period of time - used 20 times, most recently in 2021
• 365 days - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Calendar unit - used 19 times, most recently in 2023
• Four quarters - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Time period - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
• Calendar period - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Fiscal period - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Revolution period - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Wine-label datum - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Time for a revolution? - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
• 12-month period - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Trip around the sun - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• January to December - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Revolutionary period - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
• Vintage - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
• Academic period - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Once around Sol - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
• Wine list datum - used 11 times, most recently in 2016
• 88 days on Mercury - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
• Leap ___. - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Twelvemonth - used 10 times, most recently in 2008
• Wine datum - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
• Wine label info - used 10 times, most recently in 2013
• 12 months - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Time unit - used 9 times, most recently in 2006
• Vintage designation - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• Wine connoisseur's concern - used 9 times, most recently in 2012
• 88 Earth days, on Mercury - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Round of seasons - used 8 times, most recently in 2008
• Time span - used 8 times, most recently in 2005
• Two semesters - used 8 times, most recently in 2005
• Wine bottle number - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• "Happy New ___!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Lease length, often - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Oenophile's concern - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Part of a decade - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Revolution time - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
• Vintage, for example - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• 2000, for one - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• 687 days on Mars - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Calendar capacity - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
• Diary capacity - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• It's marked by a ring in a trunk - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Kind of book - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Oenologist's concern - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Part of a century - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• "The ___ of Living Dangerously" - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Wine buyer's concern - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• Wine vintage - used 6 times, most recently in 2017

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.

• First-class - AONE, used 143 times
• Ring out - PEAL, used 113 times
• Ring of light - HALO, used 85 times
• Cross inscription - INRI, used 72 times
• Crucifix inscription - INRI, used 60 times
• Ring - PEAL, used 58 times

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