Mama's mate
The crossword clue "Mama's mate" is answered by PAPA, a 4-letter entry. Used 65 times across 28 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1989. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
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PAPA
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Used 65 times across 28 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1989. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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