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ROOTS

5 letters - 16 clues in this collection

ROOTS is a 5-letter crossword answer with 16 clues in this collection. Across those clues it has 154 usages in the xd corpus, most recently in 2026. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.

The answer

ROOTS

ROOTS

5Letters
16Clues in collection
154Combined xd usages
2026Most recent year

Combined usages add the xd usage counts of every clue below. Frequency figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Every clue for ROOTS in this collection

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  • Alex Haley book - used 20 times across 16 distinct years, most recently in 2026
  • Origins - used 17 times across 15 distinct years, most recently in 2024
  • Ancestry - used 13 times across 11 distinct years, most recently in 2026
  • Cheers (for) - used 12 times across 10 distinct years, most recently in 2026
  • Alex Haley saga - used 10 times across 7 distinct years, most recently in 2010
  • Haley book - used 10 times across 9 distinct years, most recently in 1999
  • Haley opus - used 10 times across 8 distinct years, most recently in 2006
  • Genealogy - used 9 times across 9 distinct years, most recently in 2023
  • Plant parts - used 8 times across 6 distinct years, most recently in 2019
  • Alex Haley novel - used 7 times across 7 distinct years, most recently in 2022
  • Cheers - used 7 times across 6 distinct years, most recently in 2015
  • Underground network - used 7 times across 6 distinct years, most recently in 2025
  • Alex Haley classic - used 6 times across 4 distinct years, most recently in 2022
  • Alex Haley opus - used 6 times across 5 distinct years, most recently in 2013
  • Tree anchors - used 6 times across 5 distinct years, most recently in 2022
  • Underground plant parts - used 6 times across 5 distinct years, most recently in 2024

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