Poetic palindrome

The answer

ERE

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

Used 57 times across 29 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1981. It appears in 17 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ERE

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

• Before - used 733 times, most recently in 2026
• Before, poetically - used 277 times, most recently in 2026
• Afore - used 244 times, most recently in 2026
• Poetic preposition - used 230 times, most recently in 2026
• Bard's "before" - used 218 times, most recently in 2026
• Before, in poetry - used 194 times, most recently in 2026
• Prior to - used 173 times, most recently in 2026
• Before, in verse - used 148 times, most recently in 2026
• Before, in poems - used 138 times, most recently in 2026
• "... ___ he drove out of sight" - used 114 times, most recently in 2025
• Palindromic preposition - used 111 times, most recently in 2026
• Before, to Byron - used 108 times, most recently in 2025
• Before, to bards - used 103 times, most recently in 2026
• Before, of yore - used 102 times, most recently in 2026
• Before, before - used 97 times, most recently in 2025
• Poet's "before" - used 82 times, most recently in 2026
• Poetic "before" - used 81 times, most recently in 2026
• Poet's preposition - used 75 times, most recently in 2023
• Before, to a bard - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
• Prior to, poetically - used 65 times, most recently in 2026
• "... ___ I saw Elba" - used 64 times, most recently in 2019
• Sooner than. - used 64 times, most recently in 2022
• Before, once - used 62 times, most recently in 2024
• Prior to, to Prior - used 51 times, most recently in 2023
• Before, to the Bard - used 49 times, most recently in 2025
• "Able was I ___ I saw Elba" - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Before, to Burns - used 45 times, most recently in 2010
• Previous to - used 45 times, most recently in 2025
• Before, to poets - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Before, to a poet - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
• Poetic word - used 41 times, most recently in 1998
• "Able was I ___..." - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
• Before, in poesy - used 39 times, most recently in 2015
• Preceding - used 39 times, most recently in 2016
• Rather than. - used 35 times, most recently in 2005
• Prior to, in poetry - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Byron's "before" - used 30 times, most recently in 2019
• Bard's preposition - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
• Before, to Shakespeare - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Palindromic "before" - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Prior to, in verse - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Homophone for air - used 26 times, most recently in 2022
• Prior to, in poems - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Literary "before" - used 24 times, most recently in 2018
• Preposition in poetry - used 24 times, most recently in 2013
• 'Fore - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
• Before, in odes - used 21 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.

• Poetic tribute - ODE, used 212 times
• Poetic contraction - OER, used 143 times
• Poetic contraction - TIS, used 122 times
• Poetic contraction - EER, used 113 times
• Poetic contraction - EEN, used 97 times
• Poetic dusk - EEN, used 80 times

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