Dalmatian markings

The answer

SPOTS

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

Used 15 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1990. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SPOTS

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

• Catches sight of - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
• Giraffe features - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Leopard features - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Parking places - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Espies - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Dalmatian features - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Notices - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Detects - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Ladybug features - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Sees - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• Dalmatian marks - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Makes out - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Places - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Blemishes - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Dalmatian's markings - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Glimpses - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Leopard markings - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Ocelot features - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Some are blind - used 6 times, most recently in 2008

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.

• Dalmatian, e.g. - CROAT, used 8 times
• Old manuscript markings - OBELI, used 7 times
• Calendar markings - DATES, used 6 times

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