Widely scattered

The answer

SPARSE

6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SPARSE answer page.

Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 7 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.

• DIFFUSE (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for SPARSE

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

• Few and far between - used 112 times, most recently in 2026
• Meager - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
• Thinly scattered - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Scanty - used 31 times, most recently in 2023
• Thin - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
• Thinly distributed - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Thinly spread - used 21 times, most recently in 2024
• Thinly populated - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Not dense - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• In short supply - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Far from abundant - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Few and scattered - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Scattered - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Scant - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Spread out - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Far from dense - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Like desert vegetation - used 6 times, most recently in 2019

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.

• Scattered - STREWN, used 49 times
• Widely recognized - ICONIC, used 15 times
• Scattered about - STREWN, used 9 times

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