Silky synthetic
The crossword clue "Silky synthetic" is answered by RAYON, a 5-letter entry. Used 11 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2016. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
RAYON
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RAYON answer page.
Used 11 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2016. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for RAYON
Every other clue in this collection answered by RAYON, most used first.
- Synthetic fabric - used 45 times, most recently in 2025
- Synthetic fiber - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Silk substitute - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Cellulose fiber - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Ersatz silk - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
- Synthetic silk - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Fabric - used 7 times, most recently in 1974
- Silky fabric - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Synthetic silklike fabric - 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.
- Synthetic fabric - ORLON, used 65 times
- Synthetic fiber - ORLON, used 65 times
- Synthetic fiber - ARNEL, used 37 times
- Sweater synthetic - ORLON, used 20 times
- Synthetic fabric - NYLON, used 16 times
- Synthetic fabric - ARNEL, used 13 times
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