Whooping bird
The crossword clue "Whooping bird" is answered by CRANE, a 5-letter entry. Used 20 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1957. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
CRANE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CRANE answer page.
Used 20 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1957. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for CRANE
Every other clue in this collection answered by CRANE, most used first.
- Origami bird - used 63 times, most recently in 2026
- Wading bird - used 47 times, most recently in 2024
- Construction site sight - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- Origami creation - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Construction-site machine - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Long-legged bird - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
- Lifting device - used 12 times, most recently in 2014
- Lifting machine - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Stretch one's neck - used 10 times, most recently in 2011
- Whooping ___. - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Ichabod of Sleepy Hollow - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
- Heavy lifter - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Hoisting machine - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Stretch - used 8 times, most recently in 2009
- "The Red Badge of Courage" author - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Weight lifter - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Wrecking-ball swinger - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Derrick - used 7 times, most recently in 1988
- Construction site hoist - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- "Frasier" surname - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Frasier's last name - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- One doing heavy lifting - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Stretch out one's neck - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- "Whooping" marsh bird - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Bird-related - AVIAN, used 109 times
- Wading bird - EGRET, used 101 times
- "Snowy" bird - EGRET, used 80 times
- Wading bird - HERON, used 79 times
- Marsh bird - EGRET, used 63 times
- Marsh bird - SNIPE, used 59 times
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