Crossword clues - Answer
PENAL
PENAL is a 5-letter crossword answer with 8 clues in this collection. Across those clues it has 249 usages in the xd corpus, most recently in 2026. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
PENAL
PENAL
5Letters
8Clues in collection
249Combined 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 PENAL in this collection
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- Kind of code - used 46 times across 33 distinct years, most recently in 2023
- Kind of colony - used 42 times across 27 distinct years, most recently in 2015
- Of punishment - used 33 times across 23 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Punishment-related - used 29 times across 18 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Punitive. - used 28 times across 20 distinct years, most recently in 2022
- ___ code - used 25 times across 20 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Prison-related - used 24 times across 15 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Kind of code or colony - used 22 times across 15 distinct years, most recently in 2013
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