Relative of a gull

The answer

TERN

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

Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for TERN

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

• Sea swallow - used 107 times, most recently in 2026
• Sea bird - used 74 times, most recently in 2014
• Beach bird - used 51 times, most recently in 2025
• Gull relative - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
• Gull's cousin - used 46 times, most recently in 2022
• Shore bird - used 37 times, most recently in 2025
• Gull cousin - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
• Seabird - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Coastal bird - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Shore flier - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Aquatic bird - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Small seabird - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Fork-tailed seabird - used 18 times, most recently in 2022
• Fork-tailed flier - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
• Gull-like bird - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
• Fork-tailed bird - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Arctic bird - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Gull kin - used 13 times, most recently in 2008
• Marine bird - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
• Cousin of a gull - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Arctic seabird - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Ocean bird - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Seabird with a forked tail - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Set of three - used 9 times, most recently in 1998
• Gull's relative - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Fork-tailed shore bird - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• Graceful seabird - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Gull. - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
• Bird on a beach - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Fork-tailed shorebird - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Graceful aquatic bird - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
• Migratory bird - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Seagull cousin - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Seagull 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.

• Rabbit relative - HARE, used 105 times
• Relative of etc. - ETAL, used 97 times
• Onion relative - LEEK, used 83 times
• Bassoon relative - OBOE, used 69 times
• Frog relative - TOAD, used 46 times
• Ostrich relative - RHEA, used 34 times

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