Periods
The crossword clue "Periods" is answered by DOTS, a 4-letter entry. Used 19 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1942. 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
DOTS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DOTS answer page.
Used 19 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1942. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for DOTS
Every other clue in this collection answered by DOTS, most used first.
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- Connect the __ - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Pixels - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
- Braille bits - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Ellipsis trio - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Round specks - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Ellipsis parts - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Morse code symbols - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Polka ___ - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Polka __ (fabric pattern) - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Things to connect - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
- Children's connectibles - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
- Decimal points - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Dowries - used 8 times, most recently in 1986
- Kids connect them - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Morse morsels - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
- They may be connected - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
- Braille markings - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Polka followers - used 6 times, most recently in 2007
- They top i's and j's - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- They're sometimes connected - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
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.
- Historical periods - ERAS, used 232 times
- Historic periods - ERAS, used 183 times
- Periods - ERAS, used 112 times
- Time periods - ERAS, used 99 times
- Notable periods - ERAS, used 96 times
- Important periods - ERAS, used 50 times
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