Cooing bird

The answer

DOVE

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

Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• TURTLEDOVE (2 uses in xd)
• FANTAIL (1 uses in xd)
• PIGEON (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for DOVE

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

• Peace symbol - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
• Bird of peace - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Symbol of peace - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
• Hawk's opposite - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Peacenik - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Peace sign - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Bird - used 7 times, most recently in 1976
• Cote cooer - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Did a half gainer - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
• Noah's messenger - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Plunged - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• Took the plunge - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• Wading bird - IBIS, used 194 times
• Extinct bird - DODO, used 158 times
• Diving bird - LOON, used 154 times
• Sea bird - ERNE, used 124 times
• Hawaii's state bird - NENE, used 104 times
• Graceful bird - SWAN, used 100 times

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