Crossword clues - Answer
ONCE
ONCE is a 4-letter crossword answer with 34 clues in this collection. Across those clues it has 2,288 usages in the xd corpus, most recently in 2026. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
ONCE
ONCE
4Letters
34Clues in collection
2,288Combined 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 ONCE in this collection
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- Formerly - used 402 times across 74 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- A single time - used 296 times across 36 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- In the past - used 192 times across 37 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- "__ upon a time..." - used 138 times across 34 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- As soon as - used 137 times across 51 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Back in the day - used 77 times across 19 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Way back when - used 68 times across 26 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Fairy tale starter - used 66 times across 35 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Fairy tale opener - used 59 times across 31 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Long ago - used 56 times across 27 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Fairy tale beginning - used 54 times across 23 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- ___ in a blue moon - used 53 times across 19 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Fairy tale start - used 49 times across 20 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- First word of "The Raven" - used 44 times across 25 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Story starter - used 42 times across 22 distinct years, most recently in 2021
- Never again? - used 40 times across 22 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Previously - used 39 times across 23 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Some time ago - used 39 times across 20 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Without repetition - used 38 times across 20 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- ___ and for all - used 35 times across 26 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Whenever. - used 34 times across 20 distinct years, most recently in 2018
- Years ago - used 33 times across 20 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- In the old days - used 32 times across 16 distinct years, most recently in 2021
- "__ in Love with Amy" - used 29 times across 12 distinct years, most recently in 2022
- Quondam. - used 27 times across 19 distinct years, most recently in 1993
- Almost never - used 26 times across 14 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- All at __; suddenly - used 24 times across 8 distinct years, most recently in 2023
- Erstwhile - used 24 times across 19 distinct years, most recently in 2015
- Just a single time - used 24 times across 11 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Not repeatedly - used 24 times across 16 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- "___ bitten..." - used 22 times across 11 distinct years, most recently in 2018
- Grimm beginning - used 22 times across 16 distinct years, most recently in 2020
- ___ in a lifetime - used 22 times across 16 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- "Measure twice, cut ___" - used 21 times across 16 distinct years, most recently in 2026
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