Type of wave
The crossword clue "Type of wave" is answered by TIDAL, a 5-letter entry. Used 17 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1955. 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
TIDAL
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TIDAL answer page.
Used 17 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1955. 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
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Other clues for TIDAL
Every other clue in this collection answered by TIDAL, most used first.
- Kind of wave - used 74 times, most recently in 2026
- ___ wave - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
- Kind of basin - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Kind of pool - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Of ocean motion - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Like some waves - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Kind of basin or wave - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Kind of wave or basin - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Like some pools - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Like some currents - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
- Of ebb and flow - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Word before basin or wave - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Word with basin or wave - used 10 times, most recently in 2012
- Spotify competitor - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Ebbing and flowing - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Rising and falling - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
- ___ basin - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- __ pool - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Kind of bore - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
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