Instrument played while seated

The answer

CELLO

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

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for CELLO

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

• Yo-Yo Ma's instrument - used 102 times, most recently in 2026
• String quartet member - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
• Casals' instrument - used 22 times, most recently in 2013
• Ma's instrument - used 22 times, most recently in 2019
• Stringed instrument - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
• Large stringed instrument - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• String quartet instrument - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Rostropovich's instrument - used 15 times, most recently in 2012
• Quartet member - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Viola's cousin - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Violin's big brother - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Casals's instrument - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Pablo Casals' instrument - used 6 times, most recently in 2023

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.

• Church instrument - ORGAN, used 83 times
• Played a role - ACTED, used 65 times
• Shankar's instrument - SITAR, used 62 times
• Played a part - ACTED, used 56 times
• Stringed instrument - VIOLA, used 51 times
• Bluegrass instrument - BANJO, used 47 times

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