Wind instrument
The crossword clue "Wind instrument" is answered by OBOE, a 4-letter entry. Used 48 times across 29 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1953. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
OBOE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OBOE answer page.
Used 48 times across 29 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1953. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- FLUTE (5 uses in xd)
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
- 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
- Cousin of a bassoon - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
- 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.
- Away from the wind - ALEE, used 282 times
- Out of the wind - ALEE, used 179 times
- Strong wind - GALE, used 156 times
- Get wind of - HEAR, used 132 times
- "Gone With the Wind" plantation - TARA, used 63 times
- Wind indicator - VANE, used 63 times
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