Very uncommon

The answer

RARE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RARE answer page.

Used 78 times across 22 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for RARE

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

• Hard to find - used 196 times, most recently in 2026
• Uncommon - used 193 times, most recently in 2026
• Exceptional - used 157 times, most recently in 2026
• Seldom seen - used 155 times, most recently in 2026
• Steak order - used 127 times, most recently in 2025
• Unusual - used 108 times, most recently in 2026
• Scarce - used 83 times, most recently in 2026
• Hard to come by - used 67 times, most recently in 2026
• Few and far between - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
• Infrequent - used 56 times, most recently in 2025
• Quite uncommon - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
• One-in-a-million - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Steakhouse order - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Excellent. - used 34 times, most recently in 1992
• Very hard to find - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Thin - used 30 times, most recently in 2013
• Not often seen - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Steak choice - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• Not common - used 21 times, most recently in 2026

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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.

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• Very much - ALOT, used 162 times
• Very dry - ARID, used 99 times
• Very: Fr. - TRES, used 70 times
• Very, in Versailles - TRES, used 66 times
• Very, in Vichy - TRES, used 57 times

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