Fluctuates wildly

The answer

YOYOS

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

Used 15 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• SEESAWS (5 uses in xd)

Other clues for YOYOS

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

• Toys on strings - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Fluctuates - used 15 times, most recently in 2021
• They have their ups and downs - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Vacillates - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Goes up and down - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Toys with strings - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• They come with strings attached - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Toys that go around the world - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Toys that have their ups and downs - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• "Walk the dog" toys - 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.

• Swing wildly - FLAIL, used 33 times
• Talks wildly - RANTS, used 28 times
• Cheering wildly - AROAR, used 25 times
• Spoke wildly - RAVED, used 15 times
• Talked wildly - RAVED, used 10 times
• Talks wildly - RAVES, used 8 times

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