Yarn unit
The crossword clue "Yarn unit" is answered by SKEIN, a 5-letter entry. Used 20 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SKEIN
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SKEIN answer page.
Used 20 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for SKEIN
Every other clue in this collection answered by SKEIN, most used first.
- Coil of yarn - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
- Yarn purchase - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Ball of yarn - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Yarn quantity - used 12 times, most recently in 2017
- Quantity of yarn - used 11 times, most recently in 2017
- Yarn buy - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Yarn coil - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Unit of wound thread - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
- Flock of geese in flight - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Yarn bundle - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Flock of geese - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
- Length of yarn - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Tangle - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
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