Crossword clues - Answer
IDLE
IDLE is a 4-letter crossword answer with 30 clues in this collection. Across those clues it has 1,829 usages in the xd corpus, most recently in 2026. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
IDLE
IDLE
4Letters
30Clues in collection
1,829Combined 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 IDLE in this collection
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- Doing nothing - used 237 times across 36 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Not doing anything - used 165 times across 25 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Inactive - used 154 times across 51 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Not working - used 138 times across 41 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Not busy - used 132 times across 32 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Between jobs - used 87 times across 24 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Just sitting around - used 85 times across 21 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Run in neutral - used 70 times across 33 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Twiddling one's thumbs - used 63 times across 27 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Unemployed - used 61 times across 33 distinct years, most recently in 2019
- Not active - used 50 times across 22 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Not in use - used 50 times across 35 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Run in place - used 42 times across 20 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Goofing off - used 41 times across 22 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Unoccupied - used 37 times across 27 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- At rest - used 36 times across 23 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Not up to much - used 34 times across 16 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Not doing much - used 32 times across 15 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Eric of Monty Python - used 31 times across 18 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Out of work - used 31 times across 19 distinct years, most recently in 2018
- Like some threats - used 29 times across 16 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Pointless - used 29 times across 23 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Run without moving - used 28 times across 20 distinct years, most recently in 2024
- Just hanging around - used 27 times across 18 distinct years, most recently in 2024
- Loafing - used 27 times across 19 distinct years, most recently in 2023
- Vain - used 24 times across 18 distinct years, most recently in 2008
- Gathering dust - used 23 times across 11 distinct years, most recently in 2014
- Baseless - used 22 times across 18 distinct years, most recently in 2015
- Not engaged - used 22 times across 16 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Unused - used 22 times across 18 distinct years, most recently in 2024
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