Gull cousins

The answer

TERNS

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TERNS answer page.

Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for TERNS

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

• Sea birds - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Sea swallows - used 28 times, most recently in 2024
• Shorebirds - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Shore fliers - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Gull relatives - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Shore birds - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Gull-like birds - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
• Aquatic birds - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• Beach birds - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Fork-tailed fliers - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Fork-tailed seabirds - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Beach flock - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Gulls' kin - used 6 times, most recently in 2007
• Seabirds - used 6 times, most recently in 2024

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.

• Ostrich cousins - RHEAS, used 12 times
• Bassoon's cousins - OBOES, used 11 times
• Clarinet cousins - OBOES, used 11 times
• Gators' cousins - CROCS, used 10 times
• Herrings' cousins - SHADS, used 10 times
• Tony's cousins - OBIES, used 10 times

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