Societal division

The answer

CASTE

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CASTE answer page.

Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for CASTE

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

• Social stratum - used 66 times, most recently in 2025
• Social class - used 65 times, most recently in 2026
• Social group - used 55 times, most recently in 2025
• Social division - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• Hindu social class - used 18 times, most recently in 2021
• Indian social class - used 16 times, most recently in 2022
• Hindu social division - used 14 times, most recently in 2020
• Hindu class - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Brahman, e.g. - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• Social position - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Class - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Social rank - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Social standing - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Brahman, for one - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• Class of society - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Social level - used 6 times, most recently in 2014

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.

• Poem division - CANTO, used 37 times
• Division of a long poem - CANTO, used 27 times
• Company division - SALES, used 25 times
• Map division - STATE, used 24 times
• Country division - STATE, used 23 times
• Play division - SCENE, used 19 times

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