Small sheltered bay

The answer

COVE

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

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2018. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for COVE

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

• Inlet - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
• Sheltered bay - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
• Sheltered inlet - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
• Small bay - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
• Place to put in - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Sheltered nook - used 14 times, most recently in 2008
• Sheltered spot - used 13 times, most recently in 2020
• Shoreline recess - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Bay - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Coastal inlet - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Small inlet - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
• Shoreline shelter - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
• Cabot ___ ("Murder, She Wrote" setting) - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Protected inlet - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Shoreline indentation - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Safe harbor - used 6 times, most recently in 2022

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.

• Small bills - ONES, used 324 times
• Small songbird - WREN, used 265 times
• Sheltered - ALEE, used 261 times
• Small whirlpool - EDDY, used 139 times
• Small combo - TRIO, used 137 times
• Sheltered, at sea - ALEE, used 132 times

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