Egg shapes

The answer

OVALS

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

Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1972. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for OVALS

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

• Racetrack shapes - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Cameo shapes - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Squashed circles - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Track shapes - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
• Racetracks - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Race tracks - used 14 times, most recently in 2007
• Ellipses - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Tracks - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
• Roundish shapes - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
• Running tracks - used 9 times, most recently in 2008
• Flattened circles - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Deformed circles - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
• Some tracks - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Locket shapes - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Some picture frames - used 6 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.

• Egg-shaped - OVATE, used 228 times
• Egg-shaped - OVOID, used 123 times
• Small egg - OVULE, used 73 times
• Egg holders - NESTS, used 38 times
• Egg producer - OVARY, used 30 times
• Egg-producing organ - OVARY, used 25 times

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