Hair braid
The crossword clue "Hair braid" is answered by PLAIT, a 5-letter entry. Used 20 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PLAIT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PLAIT answer page.
Used 20 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- PIGTAIL (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for PLAIT
Every other clue in this collection answered by PLAIT, most used first.
- Braid - used 92 times, most recently in 2026
- Braid of hair - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
- Pigtail - used 22 times, most recently in 2020
- Make pigtails - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Cornrow, e.g. - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Interweave - used 9 times, most recently in 2011
- Make cornrows - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Lock of hair - TRESS, used 334 times
- Hair-raising - EERIE, used 94 times
- Hair net - SNOOD, used 55 times
- "___ of robins in her hair" - ANEST, used 32 times
- Hair piece - TRESS, used 30 times
- Hair-raising - SCARY, used 27 times
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