Sand hills
The crossword clue "Sand hills" is answered by DUNES, a 5-letter entry. Used 19 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1973. 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
DUNES
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DUNES answer page.
Used 19 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1973. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for DUNES
Every other clue in this collection answered by DUNES, most used first.
- Sand formations - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Sandy hills - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Sahara sights - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
- Beach hills - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Desert mounds - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Buggy places? - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Desert features - used 7 times, most recently in 2005
- Saharan sights - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Beach sights - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
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.
- Flat-topped hills - MESAS, used 65 times
- Chain of hills - RIDGE, used 51 times
- Sand bar - SHOAL, used 45 times
- ___ the hills - OLDAS, used 36 times
- Draw ___ in the sand - ALINE, used 33 times
- __ as the hills - ASOLD, used 30 times
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