Mattress spring
The crossword clue "Mattress spring" is answered by COIL, a 4-letter entry. Used 12 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
COIL
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the COIL answer page.
Used 12 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for COIL
Every other clue in this collection answered by COIL, most used first.
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- Spiral - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
- Wind - used 24 times, most recently in 2024
- Spiral shape - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Spring shape - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Spring - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Slinky shape - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Roll of stamps - used 16 times, most recently in 2021
- Bedspring - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
- Helix - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Slinky, essentially - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Wind up - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Slinky, e.g. - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Tesla ___ - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Phone-cord shape - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Wind like a snake - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Make like a snake - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Spring's shape - used 6 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.
- Spring - LEAP, used 138 times
- Spring flower - IRIS, used 82 times
- Spring bloom - IRIS, used 44 times
- Spring period - LENT, used 41 times
- Spring event - THAW, used 39 times
- Mattress support - SLAT, used 28 times
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