Crossword clues - Answer
NEED
NEED is a 4-letter crossword answer with 23 clues in this collection. Across those clues it has 1,787 usages in the xd corpus, most recently in 2026. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
NEED
NEED
4Letters
23Clues in collection
1,787Combined 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 NEED in this collection
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- Require - used 321 times across 65 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Requirement - used 261 times across 57 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Have to have - used 230 times across 35 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Must have - used 172 times across 30 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Call for - used 98 times across 30 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Exigency - used 79 times across 44 distinct years, most recently in 2015
- Can't do without - used 70 times across 25 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Requisite - used 54 times across 30 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Lack - used 51 times across 30 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- More than want - used 41 times across 20 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Poverty - used 41 times across 26 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Cry out for - used 39 times across 20 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Penury - used 37 times across 26 distinct years, most recently in 2013
- Can't live without - used 35 times across 17 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Want - used 34 times across 29 distinct years, most recently in 2016
- Scholarship criterion - used 33 times across 19 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Sine qua non - used 31 times across 24 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- "___ I say more?" - used 30 times across 15 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Desideratum - used 29 times across 19 distinct years, most recently in 2015
- Necessity - used 28 times across 20 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Obligation. - used 26 times across 20 distinct years, most recently in 2024
- Demand - used 24 times across 15 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Financial aid criterion - used 23 times across 18 distinct years, most recently in 2024
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- NEAT - 4 letters, 1,510 combined xd usages, 21 clues in this collection
- NESS - 4 letters, 1,227 combined xd usages, 24 clues in this collection
- NEST - 4 letters, 1,160 combined xd usages, 30 clues in this collection
- NERO - 4 letters, 1,052 combined xd usages, 23 clues in this collection
- NONE - 4 letters, 980 combined xd usages, 15 clues in this collection
- NORA - 4 letters, 842 combined xd usages, 17 clues in this collection
- NOEL - 4 letters, 831 combined xd usages, 16 clues in this collection
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