Napped fabric
The crossword clue "Napped fabric" is answered by SUEDE, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2010; first recorded in 1950. 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
SUEDE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SUEDE answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2010; first recorded in 1950. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SUEDE
Every other clue in this collection answered by SUEDE, most used first.
- Soft leather - used 76 times, most recently in 2025
- Napped leather - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
- Shoe material - used 44 times, most recently in 2022
- Glove material - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
- Jacket material - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- "Blue ___ Shoes" - used 35 times, most recently in 2025
- Shoe leather. - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
- Blue shoe material - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Leather. - used 12 times, most recently in 1975
- Velvety leather - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Nappy leather - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Kid stuff - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
- Leather variety - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Soft shoe material - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Glove leather - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Blue shoe material of song - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Desert boot material - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Glove fabric - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Like blue shoes of song - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Elvis' "Blue __ Shoes" - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Like Elvis' blue shoes - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Soft shoe leather - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Twilled fabric - SERGE, used 97 times
- Glossy fabric - SATIN, used 94 times
- Jeans fabric - DENIM, used 76 times
- Synthetic fabric - ORLON, used 65 times
- Suit fabric - SERGE, used 60 times
- Fabric - CLOTH, used 49 times
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