Gander's mate

The answer

GOOSE

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

Used 15 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for GOOSE

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

• Gaggle member - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Honking bird - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Silly one - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Silly person - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
• Silly sort - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Golden-egg layer - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
• "Silly" bird - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Simpleton - used 9 times, most recently in 2003
• Bird in a gaggle - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Ninny - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Waterbird - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Bird that honks - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Mother ___ - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Barnyard honker - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Duck, duck, ___ - 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.

• Mortise mate - TENON, used 40 times
• Adlai's 1956 running mate - ESTES, used 33 times
• Mortise's mate - TENON, used 29 times
• Adlai's running mate - ESTES, used 26 times
• Soul mate? - HEART, used 25 times
• Stiller's mate - MEARA, used 15 times

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