Lao-tzu's "way"

The answer

TAO

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TAO answer page.

Used 48 times across 21 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 14 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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• TAOISM (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for TAO

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

• Eastern "way" - used 173 times, most recently in 2026
• Chinese "way" - used 94 times, most recently in 2026
• Eastern path - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ Te Ching" - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
• Confucian path - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Chinese philosophy - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• Chinese principle - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• "The ___ of Pooh" - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Confucian ideal - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
• Way of the East - used 27 times, most recently in 2023
• Eastern ideal - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
• Confucian principle - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Way" - used 24 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• By way of - VIA, used 728 times
• "Way cool!" - RAD, used 107 times
• Lao-___ - TSE, used 99 times
• "In what way?" - HOW, used 93 times
• Showed the way - LED, used 93 times
• Way off - FAR, used 83 times

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