Bird with a curved bill

The answer

IBIS

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

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2001. 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

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• AVOCET (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for IBIS

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

• Wading bird - used 194 times, most recently in 2026
• Nile bird - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
• Sacred bird of Egypt - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
• Nile wader - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Hieroglyphics bird - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
• Sacred bird of ancient Egypt - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
• Sacred bird - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Sacred Egyptian bird - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Long-billed wader - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Stork relative - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Sacred bird of the Nile - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Heron cousin - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Heron's cousin - used 18 times, most recently in 2020
• Egyptian bird - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
• Large wading bird - used 16 times, most recently in 2017
• Long-legged wader - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• African wading bird - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Bird sacred to Tut - used 14 times, most recently in 2016
• Sacred Nile bird - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
• Storklike bird - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Heron relative - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
• Heron's relative - used 11 times, most recently in 2006
• Long-legged bird - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Sacred bird of the pharaohs - used 11 times, most recently in 2014
• Long-billed bird - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Leggy wader - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
• Long-billed wading bird - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Long-legged wading bird - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Bird sacred to ancient Egyptians - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Marsh bird - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Stork's kin - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Wader with a curved bill - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Bird sacred to Thoth - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Bird venerated by ancient Egyptians - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Egret relative - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Hieroglyphic bird - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Sacred bird in ancient Egypt - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Stork cousin - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Curve-billed wader - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Egyptian sacred bird - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Nile wading bird - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Sacred bird of old Egypt - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
• Spoonbill's cousin - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• Tropical wading bird - used 6 times, most recently in 2013

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.

• Curved molding - OGEE, used 310 times
• Extinct bird - DODO, used 158 times
• Diving bird - LOON, used 154 times
• Prefix with dynamic - AERO, used 152 times
• Share a border with - ABUT, used 152 times
• Done with - OVER, used 145 times

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