Groups.
The crossword clue "Groups." is answered by SECTS, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1955. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SECTS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SECTS answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1955. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- COHORTS (2 uses in xd)
Other clues for SECTS
Every other clue in this collection answered by SECTS, most used first.
- Splinter groups - used 92 times, most recently in 2026
- Factions - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
- Religious offshoots - used 58 times, most recently in 2026
- Religious groups - used 46 times, most recently in 2025
- Denominations - used 40 times, most recently in 2024
- Religious factions - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Religious subgroups - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Religious divisions - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Religious splinter groups - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Breakaway groups - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Small denominations - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Split-off groups - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
- Followings. - used 10 times, most recently in 1969
- Offshoot groups - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Divisions - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Doctrinal offshoots - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Shakers and others - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Shakers et al. - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Church offshoots - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Cults - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Denominational offshoots - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Religious branches - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Religious denominations - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
- Shakers and Quakers - 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.
- Play groups - CASTS, used 42 times
- Groups of cattle - HERDS, used 31 times
- Grazing groups - HERDS, used 30 times
- Voting groups - BLOCS, used 20 times
- Groups of actors - CASTS, used 17 times
- Military groups - UNITS, used 17 times
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