Spaces between things

The answer

GAPS

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

Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2017. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for GAPS

Every other clue in this collection answered by GAPS, most used first.

• Openings - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
• Empty spaces - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Spaces - used 26 times, most recently in 2024
• Disparities - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Breaches - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Intervals - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Mountain passes - used 14 times, most recently in 2016
• Hiatuses - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Spaces between teeth - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Breaks - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Discontinuities - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• Interstices - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Lacunae - used 8 times, most recently in 2005
• Apertures - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Breaks in continuity - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Continuity problems - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Memory problems - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Holes - used 6 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.

• Sign of things to come - OMEN, used 164 times
• Between ports - ASEA, used 137 times
• Between jobs - IDLE, used 87 times
• Inter ___ (among other things) - ALIA, used 60 times
• Few and far between - RARE, used 59 times
• Just one of those things? - THAT, used 54 times

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