Orbital shape
The crossword clue "Orbital shape" is answered by ELLIPSE, a 7-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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ELLIPSE
7 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ELLIPSE answer page.
Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for ELLIPSE
Every other clue in this collection answered by ELLIPSE, most used first.
- Oval - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
- Squashed circle - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Stop sign shape - OCTAGON, used 21 times
- Nine-sided shape - NONAGON, used 11 times
- Orbital extremes - APOGEES, used 11 times
- Honeycomb shape - HEXAGON, used 9 times
- Orbital points - APOGEES, used 9 times
- Stay in shape - KEEPFIT, used 7 times
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