Brief periods, briefly
The crossword clue "Brief periods, briefly" is answered by SECS, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SECS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SECS answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SECS
Every other clue in this collection answered by SECS, most used first.
- Brief moments - used 54 times, most recently in 2025
- Jiffs - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Min. parts - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Parts of mins. - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Jiffies - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Min. fractions - used 15 times, most recently in 2015
- Min. divisions - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Moments, for short - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
- Fractions of mins. - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
- "Gimme a few ___" - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Moments - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Abbreviated moments - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Brief periods - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Min. components - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Min. segments - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Moments, informally - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Short times, for short - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
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.
- Historical periods - ERAS, used 232 times
- Historic periods - ERAS, used 183 times
- Periods - ERAS, used 112 times
- Time periods - ERAS, used 99 times
- Notable periods - ERAS, used 96 times
- Get ready, briefly - PREP, used 64 times
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