Crossword clues - Answer
HONE
HONE is a 4-letter crossword answer with 12 clues in this collection. Across those clues it has 958 usages in the xd corpus, most recently in 2026. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
HONE
HONE
4Letters
12Clues in collection
958Combined 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 HONE in this collection
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- Sharpen - used 498 times across 75 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Fine-tune - used 89 times across 30 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Perfect - used 66 times across 24 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Make sharper - used 52 times across 23 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Sharpen, as skills - used 42 times across 19 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Whet - used 36 times across 28 distinct years, most recently in 2023
- Give an edge to - used 35 times across 23 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Put an edge on - used 34 times across 25 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Refine - used 32 times across 19 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Whetstone. - used 30 times across 24 distinct years, most recently in 2007
- Use a whetstone - used 23 times across 14 distinct years, most recently in 2011
- Improve, as skills - used 21 times across 17 distinct years, most recently in 2026
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