"I'm standing right here!"

The answer

AHEM

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

Used 28 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 16 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for AHEM

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

• "Excuse me ..." - used 198 times, most recently in 2026
• Throat-clearing sound - used 180 times, most recently in 2026
• Attention getter - used 111 times, most recently in 2026
• "Pardon me" - used 100 times, most recently in 2026
• "Beg pardon ..." - used 89 times, most recently in 2026
• Throat clearer - used 75 times, most recently in 2025
• Attention-getting sound - used 67 times, most recently in 2026
• Polite interruption - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• "Um, excuse me" - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• "Uh, excuse me" - used 22 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• "Yeah, right!" - IBET, used 238 times
• "Hey, over here!" - PSST, used 232 times
• "Yeah, right!" - ASIF, used 159 times
• Right on the map - EAST, used 140 times
• "Right away!" - ASAP, used 109 times
• "Over here!" - PSST, used 104 times

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