Cicatrix

The answer

SCAR

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

Used 141 times across 56 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1943. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• SCARTISSUE (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for SCAR

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

• Lasting mark - used 144 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Lion King" villain - used 120 times, most recently in 2026
• Lasting impression - used 84 times, most recently in 2026
• Surgery souvenir - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
• Blemish - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
• Surgery reminder - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Wound reminder - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Surgery memento - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Mark. - used 39 times, most recently in 2006
• Mark for life - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Isolated rock. - used 28 times, most recently in 1996
• "Lion King" villain - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
• Traumatize - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Battle memento - used 26 times, most recently in 2022
• Fight memento - used 21 times, most recently in 2026

Related clues

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.

• Wild guess - STAB, used 480 times
• Appear - SEEM, used 451 times
• Ooze - SEEP, used 449 times
• "Auld Lang ___" - SYNE, used 447 times
• Withered - SERE, used 400 times
• Location - SITE, used 390 times

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