Church offshoot
The crossword clue "Church offshoot" is answered by SECT, a 4-letter entry. Used 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1993. 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
SECT
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SECT answer page.
Used 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1993. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SECT
Every other clue in this collection answered by SECT, most used first.
- Splinter group - used 217 times, most recently in 2026
- Religious offshoot - used 147 times, most recently in 2026
- Faction - used 133 times, most recently in 2026
- Religious group - used 89 times, most recently in 2024
- Denomination - used 82 times, most recently in 2026
- Religious faction - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
- Breakaway group - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
- Religious subgroup - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- Small denomination - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Religious splinter group - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Offshoot group - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Religious subdivision - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Religious branch - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Following. - used 17 times, most recently in 1997
- Shakers, e.g. - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Split-off group - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Church group - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Cult - used 16 times, most recently in 2020
- Religious denomination - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- The Amish, e.g. - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
- Religious body - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
- Schismatic group - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
- Mennonites, e.g. - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
- Branch - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Chip off the old flock? - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Amish, for one - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
- Sunni or Shia - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- Broken-off branch - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Religious order - used 7 times, most recently in 2004
- Spinoff group - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Denominational offshoot - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Faction within a faith - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Offshoot - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Quakers or Shakers - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
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.
- Church recess - APSE, used 253 times
- Church area - APSE, used 216 times
- Church section - APSE, used 206 times
- Church service - MASS, used 130 times
- Church part - APSE, used 101 times
- Church calendar - ORDO, used 93 times
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