Rainbow shapes
The crossword clue "Rainbow shapes" is answered by ARCS, a 4-letter entry. Used 70 times across 23 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1978. It appears in 24 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
ARCS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ARCS answer page.
Used 70 times across 23 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1978. It appears in 24 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ARCS
Every other clue in this collection answered by ARCS, most used first.
- Curved lines - used 107 times, most recently in 2026
- Circle segments - used 86 times, most recently in 2026
- Rainbows - used 81 times, most recently in 2023
- Circle parts - used 49 times, most recently in 2025
- Circle portions - used 47 times, most recently in 2025
- Curved paths - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
- Curves - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
- Story lines - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Pendulum paths - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- Bows - used 30 times, most recently in 2008
- Trajectories - used 25 times, most recently in 2011
- Parentheses, e.g. - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Curving paths - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Eyebrow shapes - used 21 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.
- Rainbow - IRIS, used 104 times
- Rainbow goddess - IRIS, used 68 times
- Right-angle shapes - ELLS, used 47 times
- "__ the Rainbow" - OVER, used 42 times
- Goddess of the rainbow - IRIS, used 22 times
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