Ringlike earring

The answer

HOOP

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

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for HOOP

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

• Basketball target - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
• Earring shape - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
• Hula __ - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• Earring style - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
• Earring type - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Basketball rim - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Barrel part - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
• Cager's target - used 12 times, most recently in 2013
• Backboard attachment - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Court target - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Circular earring - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Kind of skirt - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
• Skirt shape - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Slam dunk target - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Stud alternative - 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.

• Small earring - STUD, used 52 times
• Earring site - LOBE, used 47 times
• Place for an earring - LOBE, used 30 times
• Simple earring - STUD, used 18 times
• Earring type - STUD, used 13 times
• Earring locale - LOBE, used 9 times

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