Wading bird
The crossword clue "Wading bird" is answered by EGRET, a 5-letter entry. Used 101 times across 44 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 24 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
EGRET
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EGRET answer page.
Used 101 times across 44 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 24 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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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
- "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
- Plume source - used 22 times, most recently in 2012
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 - HERON, used 79 times
- Origami bird - CRANE, used 63 times
- Marsh bird - SNIPE, used 59 times
- Baby bird? - STORK, used 58 times
- Diving bird - GREBE, used 58 times
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