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"suitor" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often swain (5 letters).
Definitions
a man who courts a woman
Word origin
From Middle English sutour, from Anglo-Norman suytour, seuter, from Late Latin secutor (“follower, pursuer”).
Used in a sentence
“[…] and Mortimer asserted he had no shortage of suitors ready, willing, and able to make acquisition loans […]”
“The Betaville blog wrote earlier this week about market speculation that Adevinta was attracting takeover interest, without naming the suitors.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Courtship pursuer”6 letters
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