Short times, for short

The answer

SECS

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SECS answer page.

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 5 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
• Brief periods, briefly - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• 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

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.

• For fear that - LEST, used 503 times
• Change for a five - ONES, used 272 times
• "What's ___ for me?" - INIT, used 264 times
• Shrek, for one - OGRE, used 244 times
• Historic times - ERAS, used 186 times
• Ready for business - OPEN, used 184 times

Search the clue collection

Search by clue words or by answer, or type a pattern with the letters you have and a blank for each square you do not know. The characters _ ? . and - all work as blanks.