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TIC

3 letters - 12 clues in this collection

TIC is a 3-letter crossword answer with 12 clues in this collection. Across those clues it has 769 usages in the xd corpus, most recently in 2026. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.

The answer

TIC

TIC

3Letters
12Clues in collection
769Combined 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 TIC in this collection

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  • __-tac-toe - used 146 times across 30 distinct years, most recently in 2026
  • Twitch - used 142 times across 55 distinct years, most recently in 2025
  • Spasm - used 121 times across 39 distinct years, most recently in 2026
  • Quirk - used 64 times across 28 distinct years, most recently in 2026
  • Muscle spasm - used 48 times across 30 distinct years, most recently in 2026
  • Nervous twitch - used 48 times across 26 distinct years, most recently in 2026
  • Personal quirk - used 42 times across 20 distinct years, most recently in 2024
  • Behavioral quirk - used 39 times across 22 distinct years, most recently in 2026
  • Idiosyncrasy - used 32 times across 16 distinct years, most recently in 2023
  • Twitching - used 32 times across 26 distinct years, most recently in 1999
  • Facial twitch - used 28 times across 13 distinct years, most recently in 2026
  • Peculiarity - used 27 times across 18 distinct years, most recently in 2026

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  • TEE - 3 letters, 1,675 combined xd usages, 30 clues in this collection
  • TOO - 3 letters, 1,602 combined xd usages, 13 clues in this collection
  • TEA - 3 letters, 1,336 combined xd usages, 34 clues in this collection
  • TEN - 3 letters, 1,315 combined xd usages, 25 clues in this collection
  • TRA - 3 letters, 1,289 combined xd usages, 15 clues in this collection
  • TNT - 3 letters, 1,270 combined xd usages, 19 clues in this collection
  • TRY - 3 letters, 1,270 combined xd usages, 18 clues in this collection

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