Castaways' escape vehicles

The answer

RAFTS

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

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for RAFTS

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

• Flat floaters - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Floats. - used 15 times, most recently in 2004
• Inflatable boats - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Rides the rapids - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• A lot - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• Lots - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• Rapids transits - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• River vessels - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• White-water transports - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Oodles - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Pool floats - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Some are inflatable - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Rapids transports - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• They might send you down the river - used 6 times, most recently in 2006

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.

• Iditarod vehicles - SLEDS, used 30 times
• Winter vehicles - SLEDS, used 28 times
• Escape from - EVADE, used 27 times
• Snow vehicles - SLEDS, used 27 times
• Escape - ELUDE, used 24 times
• Escape from - ELUDE, used 21 times

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