Tire surface

The answer

TREAD

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

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for TREAD

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

• Tire pattern - used 89 times, most recently in 2026
• Tire feature - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
• Step - used 26 times, most recently in 2020
• Stair part - used 23 times, most recently in 2016
• "Don't ___ on me" - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Tire part - used 20 times, most recently in 2023
• Trample - used 13 times, most recently in 2018
• Escalator feature - used 12 times, most recently in 2017
• Bald tire's lack - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
• Part of a tire - used 11 times, most recently in 2013
• Radial pattern - used 11 times, most recently in 2016
• Walk (on) - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• Sneaker feature - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Walk - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Sole pattern - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Traction aid - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Where the rubber meets the road - 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.

• Tire in the trunk - SPARE, used 45 times
• Gem surface - FACET, used 42 times
• Diamond surface - FACET, used 32 times
• Surface - ARISE, used 32 times
• Extra tire - SPARE, used 27 times
• Painting surface - GESSO, used 22 times

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