Burrowing rodent
The crossword clue "Burrowing rodent" is answered by VOLE, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2014. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
VOLE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the VOLE answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2014. It appears in 4 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.
- GERBIL (3 uses in xd)
Other clues for VOLE
Every other clue in this collection answered by VOLE, most used first.
- Field mouse - used 54 times, most recently in 2025
- Meadow mouse - used 44 times, most recently in 2023
- Short-tailed rodent - used 14 times, most recently in 2021
- Mouselike rodent - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Small rodent - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
- Rodent - used 11 times, most recently in 2002
- Mouselike animal - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
- Field rodent - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Meadow rodent - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Mouselike critter - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Ratlike rodent - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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.
- Burrowing mammal - MOLE, used 43 times
- S.A. rodent - PACA, used 37 times
- Burrowing animal - MOLE, used 29 times
- South American rodent - PACA, used 26 times
- Chew like a rodent - GNAW, used 22 times
- Burrowing critter - MOLE, used 20 times
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