Prefix meaning "coil"

The answer

SPIRO

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SPIRO answer page.

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SPIRO

Every other clue in this collection answered by SPIRO, most used first.

• Hubert's successor - used 24 times, most recently in 2023
• Vice president Agnew - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• VP Agnew - used 19 times, most recently in 2023
• Former veep Agnew - used 18 times, most recently in 2017
• Veep after Hubert - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Richard's first veep - used 14 times, most recently in 2009
• Agnew - used 13 times, most recently in 2005
• Richard's veep - used 13 times, most recently in 2019
• Dick's veep - used 12 times, most recently in 2013
• Gerald's predecessor - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Veep Agnew - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Former vice president Agnew - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• Veep before Gerald - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Vice president after Hubert - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Vice president before Gerald - used 6 times, most recently in 2023

Related clues

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• Prefix for violet - ULTRA, used 43 times
• Prefix with centric - ETHNO, used 40 times

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