"May I help you?"

The answer

YES

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the YES answer page.

Used 63 times across 24 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 11 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.

• HOW (2 uses in xd)
• MAAM (1 uses in xd)
• SIR (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for YES

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

• Affirmative - used 210 times, most recently in 2026
• "Certainly!" - used 129 times, most recently in 2026
• Agreeable answer - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
• "By all means!" - used 53 times, most recently in 2025
• "You rang?" - used 47 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.

• "What did I tell you?" - SEE, used 155 times
• May honoree - MOM, used 152 times
• Verb for you - ARE, used 139 times
• "Didn't I tell you?" - SEE, used 137 times
• "Shop ___ you drop" - TIL, used 123 times
• "You ___ here" - ARE, used 119 times

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