Boat backbone
The crossword clue "Boat backbone" is answered by KEEL, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026. 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
KEEL
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the KEEL answer page.
Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for KEEL
Every other clue in this collection answered by KEEL, most used first.
- Ship's backbone - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
- Fall (over) - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Ship stabilizer - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Ship part - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
- Boat's backbone - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Ship's spine - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Boat bottom - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Topple (over) - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- __ over; faint - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
- On an even ___ - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Capsize, with "over" - used 12 times, most recently in 2016
- __ over (capsize) - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Boat part - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Ship: Poet. - used 11 times, most recently in 1967
- Boat stabilizer - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
- On an even __ (steady) - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Part of a ship - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Boat's bottom - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Faint, with "over" - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- __ over (topple) - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Stem-to-stern structure - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Backbone of a ship - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Nautical centerpiece - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
- Nautical spine - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- __ over (collapse) - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Stem-to-stern part - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
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-bottomed boat - SCOW, used 124 times
- "Show Boat" composer - KERN, used 64 times
- "Show Boat" author Ferber - EDNA, used 47 times
- Biblical boat builder - NOAH, used 32 times
- Fishing boat - DORY, used 31 times
- Travel by boat - SAIL, used 31 times
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