DuPont's acrylic fiber

The answer

ORLON

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

Used 6 times across 3 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 2011. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ORLON

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

• Acrylic fiber - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
• Synthetic fabric - used 65 times, most recently in 2025
• Synthetic fiber - used 65 times, most recently in 2026
• Sweater synthetic - used 20 times, most recently in 2014
• Fabric. - used 18 times, most recently in 1973
• Wrinkle-resistant fabric - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
• Wrinkle-resistant synthetic - used 12 times, most recently in 2017
• DuPont fiber - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
• Acrylic fabric - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
• Modern fabric. - used 9 times, most recently in 1983
• Lightweight synthetic - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
• DuPont acrylic - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Fabric introduced by DuPont - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• Leisure suit material - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
• Sweater fabric - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Sweater material - used 6 times, most recently in 2010

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.

• Rope fiber - SISAL, used 85 times
• Fiber-___ cable - OPTIC, used 59 times
• Twine fiber - SISAL, used 46 times
• Carpet fiber - ISTLE, used 39 times
• Cordage fiber - ISTLE, used 37 times
• Synthetic fiber - ARNEL, used 37 times

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