Fish with a rainbow variety

The answer

TROUT

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

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2020. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for TROUT

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

• "Rainbow" fish - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Game fish - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
• Rainbow ___ - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Freshwater fish - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Brook fish - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Brook catch - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
• Brook swimmer - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Steelhead. - used 9 times, most recently in 1999
• Lake fish - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• River catch - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Rainbow, for one - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
• Rainbow or brook - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
• Salmon cousin - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Salmon relative - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Lake catch - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• Lake swimmer - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• Steelhead, e.g. - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Stream swimmer - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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