Colorful swimmer
The crossword clue "Colorful swimmer" is answered by TETRA, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TETRA
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TETRA answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 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 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.
- REDSNAPPER (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for TETRA
Every other clue in this collection answered by TETRA, most used first.
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- Colorful aquarium fish - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
- Aquarium favorite - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
- Prefix meaning "four" - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Four: Prefix - used 35 times, most recently in 2025
- Tropical fish - used 33 times, most recently in 2024
- Numerical prefix. - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
- Colorful tropical fish - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- "Neon" fish - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Colorful fish - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Four: Comb. form. - used 17 times, most recently in 2020
- Popular aquarium fish - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Aquarium denizen - used 14 times, most recently in 2012
- Neon ___ (aquarium fish) - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Brightly colored aquarium fish - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
- One more than tri- - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- "Four" at the fore - used 11 times, most recently in 2016
- Neon ___ - used 11 times, most recently in 2014
- Common aquarium fish - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Prefix with fluoride - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
- Prefix with -hedron - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
- Aquarium swimmer - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Half of octa- - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Aquarium beauty - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Brightly colored tropical fish - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Penta- minus one - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Four: Pref. - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
- Tropical aquarium fish - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Colorful parrot - MACAW, used 105 times
- Furry swimmer - OTTER, used 58 times
- Playful swimmer - OTTER, used 40 times
- Less colorful - PALER, used 29 times
- Colorful quartz - AGATE, used 19 times
- Colorful marble - AGATE, used 16 times
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