Key near Ctrl

The answer

ALT

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

Used 27 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ALT

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

• PC key - used 245 times, most recently in 2026
• Ctrl-___-Del - used 115 times, most recently in 2026
• Flight stat - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
• High, in music - used 50 times, most recently in 2012
• High in pitch. - used 50 times, most recently in 1994
• Supermodel Carol - used 48 times, most recently in 2025
• Space bar neighbor - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Computer key - used 45 times, most recently in 2023
• Hgt. - used 45 times, most recently in 2024
• Cockpit abbr. - used 44 times, most recently in 2025
• Elev. - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Bottom-row PC key - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Model Carol - used 39 times, most recently in 2015
• ___-rock - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Keyboard key - used 33 times, most recently in 2020
• Music genre prefix - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• PC key near the space bar - used 29 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.

• PC key - ESC, used 239 times
• Computer key - ESC, used 110 times
• Indent key - TAB, used 70 times
• Key letter - PHI, used 70 times
• PC bailout key - ESC, used 56 times
• Ctrl-Alt-___ - DEL, used 53 times

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