Wading bird
The crossword clue "Wading bird" is answered by IBIS, a 4-letter entry. Used 194 times across 66 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1945. It appears in 18 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
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Used 194 times across 66 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1945. It appears in 18 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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