Phone-cord shape
The crossword clue "Phone-cord shape" is answered by COIL, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 2 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 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 2 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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- 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
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- 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
- Mattress spring - used 12 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
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- Make like a snake - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Spring's shape - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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