Wind like a snake

The answer

COIL

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the COIL answer page.

Used 7 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 3 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.

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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.

• Away from the wind - ALEE, used 282 times
• Like ___ of bricks - ATON, used 201 times
• Out of the wind - ALEE, used 179 times
• Strong wind - GALE, used 156 times
• Fly like an eagle - SOAR, used 141 times
• Get wind of - HEAR, used 132 times

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