Plume source

The answer

EGRET

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

Used 22 times across 18 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1971. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for EGRET

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

• White heron - used 115 times, most recently in 2026
• Wading bird - used 101 times, most recently in 2026
• "Snowy" bird - used 80 times, most recently in 2026
• Everglades wader - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
• Marsh bird - used 63 times, most recently in 2025
• Snowy wader - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
• Heron - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
• Everglades bird - used 50 times, most recently in 2024
• Plumed wader - used 41 times, most recently in 2018
• White wader - used 38 times, most recently in 2025
• Plumed bird - used 36 times, most recently in 2012
• White-plumed bird - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• Plumed heron - used 31 times, most recently in 2014
• White-plumed wader - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Heron's cousin - used 23 times, most recently in 2025

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