Hair lock
The crossword clue "Hair lock" is answered by TRESS, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TRESS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TRESS answer page.
Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TRESS
Every other clue in this collection answered by TRESS, most used first.
- Lock of hair - used 334 times, most recently in 2026
- Lock - used 203 times, most recently in 2026
- Head lock - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
- Long lock - used 56 times, most recently in 2025
- Ringlet - used 40 times, most recently in 2023
- Hair piece - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
- Long lock of hair - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Rapunzel feature - used 20 times, most recently in 2019
- Bit of hair - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Curl. - used 15 times, most recently in 2016
- Braid - used 14 times, most recently in 2018
- Hank of hair - used 14 times, most recently in 2013
- Hairdresser's handful - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- Part of a chignon - used 9 times, most recently in 2006
- Bit of salon litter - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
- Braid of hair - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Lock with no key? - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Plait of hair - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Ringlet of hair - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
- Hair unit - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Lock in a salon - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Lover's keepsake, perhaps - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
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.
- Hair-raising - EERIE, used 94 times
- Hair net - SNOOD, used 55 times
- "___ of robins in her hair" - ANEST, used 32 times
- Braid of hair - PLAIT, used 30 times
- Hair-raising - SCARY, used 27 times
- Angel hair, e.g. - PASTA, used 25 times
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