Women in habits

The answer

NUNS

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

Used 14 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 8 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 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
• Religious sisters - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• "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.

• Fr. holy women - STES, used 132 times
• "Little Women" woman - BETH, used 44 times
• Women - SHES, used 26 times
• "Little Women" sister - BETH, used 25 times
• Canonized Fr. women - STES, used 20 times
• One of the "Little Women" - BETH, used 18 times

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