Ruhr Valley city
The crossword clue "Ruhr Valley city" is answered by ESSEN, a 5-letter entry. Used 155 times across 34 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 20 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
ESSEN
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ESSEN answer page.
Used 155 times across 34 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 20 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ESSEN
Every other clue in this collection answered by ESSEN, most used first.
- Ruhr city - used 141 times, most recently in 2024
- German steel city - used 97 times, most recently in 2026
- German industrial city - used 91 times, most recently in 2025
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- German city - used 78 times, most recently in 2026
- Krupp Works city - used 39 times, most recently in 2018
- Big Bertha's birthplace - used 34 times, most recently in 2022
- City north of Cologne - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
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