Muse with a lyre

The answer

ERATO

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ERATO answer page.

Used 49 times across 29 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1957. It appears in 16 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ERATO

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

• Muse of poetry - used 178 times, most recently in 2026
• Poetry Muse - used 94 times, most recently in 2024
• Poet's Muse - used 86 times, most recently in 2026
• Muse - used 80 times, most recently in 1996
• Muse of love poetry - used 77 times, most recently in 2026
• Muse of lyric poetry - used 77 times, most recently in 2025
• Poetic Muse - used 73 times, most recently in 2025
• One of the Muses - used 55 times, most recently in 2025
• Sister of Clio - used 54 times, most recently in 2018
• A Muse - used 52 times, most recently in 2024
• Sister of Calliope - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• Clio's sister - used 35 times, most recently in 2017
• Love poetry Muse - used 29 times, most recently in 2021
• Sister of Urania - used 28 times, most recently in 2022
• Sappho's Muse - used 24 times, most recently in 2014
• Sister of Thalia - used 24 times, most recently in 2021

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.

• Fill with joy - ELATE, used 232 times
• Put up with - ABIDE, used 183 times
• Connect with - TIETO, used 87 times
• Go with the flow - ADAPT, used 77 times
• Change with the times - ADAPT, used 72 times
• Went out with - DATED, used 71 times

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