French cleric
The crossword clue "French cleric" is answered by ABBE, a 4-letter entry. Used 172 times across 57 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1951. It appears in 21 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
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ABBE
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Used 172 times across 57 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1951. It appears in 21 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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