Cipher
The crossword clue "Cipher" is answered by ZERO, a 4-letter entry. Used 11 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1960. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ZERO
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ZERO answer page.
Used 11 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1960. It appears in 5 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.
- AUGHTS (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for ZERO
Every other clue in this collection answered by ZERO, most used first.
- Goose egg - used 89 times, most recently in 2026
- Round number? - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Zilch - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
- Nada - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Nil - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Nothing - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Nothing at all - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
- Binary digit - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Zip - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- It's nothing - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Celsius freezing point - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Love, in tennis - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- 0 - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Naught - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Nonentity - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- It means nothing - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Mostel - used 7 times, most recently in 1981
- Abysmal test score - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Actor Mostel - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Home (in on) - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Pedometer starting point - 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.
- Cipher - CODE, used 8 times
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