"___ been thinking ..."

The answer

IVE

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

Used 45 times across 20 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 18 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for IVE

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

• "-- had it!" - used 171 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ Got a Secret" - used 149 times, most recently in 2022
• "Now ___ seen everything!" - used 99 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ been had!" - used 90 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ got it!" - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
• "So ___ heard" - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Common contraction - used 36 times, most recently in 2019
• "___ Gotta Be Me" - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ seen worse" - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ had it up to here!" - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ seen enough!" - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ Got Sixpence" - used 23 times, most recently in 2005
• "___ Got You Under My Skin" - used 22 times, most recently in 2024

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.

• "-- been real!" - ITS, used 59 times
• Had been - WAS, used 54 times
• "I've been ___!" - HAD, used 24 times
• Has been - WAS, used 23 times
• ___-been - HAS, used 21 times

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