Religious sisters

The answer

NUNS

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

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2019. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for NUNS

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

• Sisters - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Convent residents - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Some sisters - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Wimple wearers - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Convent dwellers - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Women in habits - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
• Women with habits - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• They have their orders - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
• "Sister Act" extras - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
• "The Sound of Music" extras - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Convent group - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Habit wearers - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Many "Call the Midwife" characters - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• "Sister Act" roles - used 6 times, most recently in 2015

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.

• Religious offshoot - SECT, used 147 times
• Religious group - SECT, used 89 times
• Religious faction - SECT, used 75 times
• One of Chekhov's "Three Sisters" - OLGA, used 60 times
• Religious image - ICON, used 60 times
• Religious ceremony - RITE, used 57 times

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