Ducky shade of blue

The answer

TEAL

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

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for TEAL

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

• Greenish blue - used 130 times, most recently in 2026
• Blue hue - used 81 times, most recently in 2026
• River duck - used 71 times, most recently in 2019
• Blue-green - used 61 times, most recently in 2026
• Shade of blue - used 54 times, most recently in 2021
• Blue-green shade - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
• Freshwater duck - used 48 times, most recently in 2023
• Blue shade - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Bluish green - used 46 times, most recently in 2025
• Small duck - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Duck - used 34 times, most recently in 2017
• Blue-green color - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Dabbling duck - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
• Pond duck - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Blue-green hue - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Marsh duck - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
• Greenish-blue hue - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Color similar to aqua - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Duck or color - used 15 times, most recently in 2010
• Fresh-water duck. - used 13 times, most recently in 2005
• Short-necked duck - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• Ducky color? - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
• Greenish-blue color - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Pond swimmer - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
• Wild duck - used 11 times, most recently in 2006
• Color named for a duck - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Colorful duck - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Dark greenish blue - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Blue-winged duck - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
• Bluish hue - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Mallard's cousin - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
• Aqua kin - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Bluish duck - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Bluish color - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Cousin of a canvasback - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
• Mallard cousin - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Turquoise kin - used 6 times, most recently in 2022

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.

• Shade trees - ELMS, used 266 times
• Blue-pencil - EDIT, used 151 times
• Blue hue - AQUA, used 135 times
• Blue dye - ANIL, used 116 times
• Greenish-blue - AQUA, used 111 times
• Morales of "NYPD Blue" - ESAI, used 104 times

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