Spiral shape
The crossword clue "Spiral shape" is answered by COIL, a 4-letter entry. Used 21 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 12 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 21 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for COIL
Every other clue in this collection answered by COIL, most used first.
- Slinky's shape - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Spiral - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
- Wind - used 24 times, most recently in 2024
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Track shape - OVAL, used 223 times
- Racetrack shape - OVAL, used 110 times
- Cameo shape - OVAL, used 104 times
- Eyebrow shape - ARCH, used 67 times
- Face shape - OVAL, used 66 times
- Out of shape - BENT, used 58 times
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