Windbreaker fabric

The answer

NYLON

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NYLON answer page.

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• GORETEX (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for NYLON

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

• Hose material - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Parachute material - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Stocking material - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
• Hosiery material - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Stocking stuff - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Parachute fabric - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Backpack material - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
• Synthetic fabric - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Chute material - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Dental floss material - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Fishing line material - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
• Synthetic fiber - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Synthetic material - used 6 times, most recently in 2014

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.

• Twilled fabric - SERGE, used 97 times
• Glossy fabric - SATIN, used 94 times
• Jeans fabric - DENIM, used 76 times
• Synthetic fabric - ORLON, used 65 times
• Suit fabric - SERGE, used 60 times
• Fabric - CLOTH, used 49 times

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