Cousin of a bassoon

The answer

OBOE

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

Used 22 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2024. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for OBOE

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

• Woodwind instrument - used 332 times, most recently in 2026
• Reed instrument - used 195 times, most recently in 2026
• Hautboy - used 152 times, most recently in 2013
• Woodwind - used 146 times, most recently in 2026
• Double-reed instrument - used 140 times, most recently in 2026
• Slender woodwind - used 102 times, most recently in 2026
• Clarinet cousin - used 92 times, most recently in 2026
• Bassoon's kin - used 91 times, most recently in 2026
• Double-reed woodwind - used 87 times, most recently in 2026
• Bassoon relative - used 69 times, most recently in 2026
• Wind instrument - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Bassoon cousin - used 47 times, most recently in 2025
• Bassoon's cousin - used 46 times, most recently in 2025
• Clarinet's cousin - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
• Mitch Miller's instrument - used 41 times, most recently in 2025
• Orchestra member - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
• Bassoon kin - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• Orchestral instrument. - used 35 times, most recently in 2023
• Musical instrument. - used 32 times, most recently in 2003
• Slender instrument - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• The duck in "Peter and the Wolf" - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Wind in a pit - used 30 times, most recently in 2024
• Certain woodwind - used 27 times, most recently in 2018
• English horn relative - used 27 times, most recently in 2023
• Orchestra instrument - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• English-horn kin - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
• Double reed - used 23 times, most recently in 2009
• One of the reeds - used 23 times, most recently in 2018
• "Peter and the Wolf" duck - used 23 times, most recently in 2023
• Reed section member - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Clarinet's kin - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• One of the woodwinds - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
• Reed - used 22 times, most recently in 1997
• Reed in a pit - used 22 times, most recently in 2021
• Clarinet relative - used 21 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• Gator's cousin - CROC, used 134 times
• Bigfoot's cousin - YETI, used 91 times
• Tony's cousin - OBIE, used 74 times
• Frog's cousin - TOAD, used 66 times
• Gull's cousin - TERN, used 46 times
• Gator cousin - CROC, used 36 times

Search the clue collection

Search by clue words or by answer, or type a pattern with the letters you have and a blank for each square you do not know. The characters _ ? . and - all work as blanks.