Carpet fastener
The crossword clue "Carpet fastener" is answered by TACK, a 4-letter entry. Used 13 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1953. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TACK
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TACK answer page.
Used 13 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1953. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TACK
Every other clue in this collection answered by TACK, most used first.
- Bulletin board fastener - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Bulletin board item - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Poster holder - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Bulletin board pin - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Sailing maneuver - used 10 times, most recently in 2012
- Small nail - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Approach - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
- Carpet nail - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Sail a zigzag course - used 6 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.
- Thick carpet - SHAG, used 79 times
- Carpet type - SHAG, used 75 times
- Door fastener - HASP, used 75 times
- Letter-shaped fastener - TNUT, used 65 times
- Fastener - HASP, used 60 times
- Carpet feature - PILE, used 46 times
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