Orbital periods

The answer

YEARS

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

Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for YEARS

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

• A long time - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
• Decade parts - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
• Long time - used 21 times, most recently in 2021
• Decade divisions - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Sentence units - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Time periods - used 11 times, most recently in 1992
• Quite a while - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Ages - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Millennium makeup - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• Trips around the sun - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• A dog's age - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Age measurement - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Calendar periods - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Months and months - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Twelve-month periods - used 6 times, most recently in 2024

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.

• Orbital point - APSIS, used 29 times
• Quiet periods - LULLS, used 12 times
• Orbital extreme - APSIS, used 10 times
• 60-minute periods - HOURS, used 9 times
• Dry periods - SERES, used 9 times
• Prosperous periods - BOOMS, used 8 times

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