Tire pattern
The crossword clue "Tire pattern" is answered by TREAD, a 5-letter entry. Used 89 times across 33 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1969. It appears in 19 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the pilot data itself.
The answer
TREAD
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TREAD answer page.
Used 89 times across 33 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1969. It appears in 19 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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