Book's backbone
The crossword clue "Book's backbone" is answered by SPINE, a 5-letter entry. Used 13 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2011. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SPINE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SPINE answer page.
Used 13 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2011. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SPINE
Every other clue in this collection answered by SPINE, most used first.
- Backbone - used 121 times, most recently in 2026
- Book part - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
- Book back - used 20 times, most recently in 2021
- Courage - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Coward's lack - used 14 times, most recently in 2019
- Place for a book title - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Part of a book - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
- Quill - used 11 times, most recently in 1999
- Title holder - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Chiropractor's concern - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Gumption - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Porcupine quill - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Back of a book. - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Chiropractor's focus - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
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.
- Book's name - TITLE, used 25 times
- Words on a book's spine - TITLE, used 14 times
- Book's page number - FOLIO, used 10 times
- Book's right-hand page - RECTO, used 9 times
- Backbone - CHINE, used 8 times
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