Boat backbones
The crossword clue "Boat backbones" is answered by KEELS, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
KEELS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the KEELS answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for KEELS
Every other clue in this collection answered by KEELS, most used first.
- Boat bottoms - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Falls (over) - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Topples (over) - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- __ over; faints - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Naval bases? - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Collapses, with "over" - used 7 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.
- Dispatch boat - AVISO, used 160 times
- Back of a boat - STERN, used 59 times
- Lake boat - CANOE, used 55 times
- Paddled boat - CANOE, used 34 times
- Single-masted boat - SLOOP, used 29 times
- Flat-bottomed boat - BARGE, used 26 times
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