South African settler

The answer

BOER

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BOER answer page.

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1983. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for BOER

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

• Dutch South African - used 74 times, most recently in 2026
• Afrikaner - used 56 times, most recently in 2025
• Transvaal settler - used 37 times, most recently in 2023
• South African - used 15 times, most recently in 1998
• Afrikaans speaker - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Dutch colonist - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Transvaal trekker - used 11 times, most recently in 2017
• 1899-1902 war participant - used 10 times, most recently in 2012
• Certain South African - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• Orange Free State settler - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
• Transvaal native - used 10 times, most recently in 2007
• ___ War (1899-1902) - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
• ___ War. - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Afrikander. - used 7 times, most recently in 2002
• Great Trek participant - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
• Certain Afrikaner - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• South African of Dutch descent - used 6 times, most recently in 2021

Related clues

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• African antelope - ORYX, used 63 times
• South American monkey - TITI, used 60 times
• South American capital - LIMA, used 54 times
• North African port - ORAN, used 46 times
• "South Park" kid - STAN, used 45 times

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