Floating marker
The crossword clue "Floating marker" is answered by BUOY, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
BUOY
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BUOY answer page.
Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for BUOY
Every other clue in this collection answered by BUOY, most used first.
- Channel marker - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
- Harbor marker - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Uplift - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Keep afloat - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Harbor bobber - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Hearten - 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.
- Traffic marker - CONE, used 31 times
- Floating ice mass - BERG, used 26 times
- Marker - CHIT, used 19 times
- Gambler's marker - CHIT, used 15 times
- Floating sheet of ice - FLOE, used 14 times
- Floating ice sheet - FLOE, used 12 times
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