Crossword clues - Answer
ANTE
ANTE is a 4-letter crossword answer with 41 clues in this collection. Across those clues it has 2,437 usages in the xd corpus, most recently in 2026. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
ANTE
ANTE
4Letters
41Clues in collection
2,437Combined xd usages
2026Most recent year
Combined usages add the xd usage counts of every clue below. Frequency figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Every clue for ANTE in this collection
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- Poker payment - used 242 times across 39 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Pay to play - used 214 times across 36 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Poker stake - used 172 times across 58 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Pot starter - used 158 times across 34 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Feed the kitty - used 132 times across 48 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Chip in - used 95 times across 34 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Poker pot starter - used 92 times across 30 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Stake - used 88 times across 43 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Initial stake - used 82 times across 20 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Poker buy-in - used 71 times across 26 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Initial chip - used 63 times across 22 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Pay (up) - used 59 times across 40 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Initial poker payment - used 58 times across 14 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Start the pot - used 57 times across 25 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Part of A.M. - used 52 times across 36 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Status quo ___. - used 45 times across 24 distinct years, most recently in 2019
- Initial poker stake - used 44 times across 16 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Penny ___ - used 43 times across 31 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Poker hand starter - used 42 times across 16 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Pot builder - used 40 times across 22 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Chip in a chip - used 39 times across 21 distinct years, most recently in 2023
- Stud fee? - used 38 times across 17 distinct years, most recently in 2020
- Start a pot - used 37 times across 19 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Pay for a hand - used 36 times across 22 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Pony up - used 31 times across 22 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Start a poker pot - used 31 times across 15 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Starting stake - used 31 times across 20 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Get the pot going - used 29 times across 15 distinct years, most recently in 2021
- Poker term - used 29 times across 24 distinct years, most recently in 2022
- Poker starter - used 28 times across 18 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Price to play - used 28 times across 17 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Chip in chips - used 26 times across 14 distinct years, most recently in 2021
- ___ meridiem - used 26 times across 22 distinct years, most recently in 2023
- Opening stake - used 25 times across 15 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Poker fee - used 24 times across 18 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Poker player's payment - used 23 times across 18 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- ___ bellum. - used 22 times across 15 distinct years, most recently in 1985
- Kitty feed - used 22 times across 14 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Before: Prefix. - used 21 times across 17 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Cost of cards - used 21 times across 16 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Get in the game - used 21 times across 15 distinct years, most recently in 2026
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