Insect that stings
The crossword clue "Insect that stings" is answered by WASP, a 4-letter entry. Used 10 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2019. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
WASP
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the WASP answer page.
Used 10 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2019. It appears in 3 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.
- BUMBLEBEE (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for WASP
Every other clue in this collection answered by WASP, most used first.
- Stinging insect - used 121 times, most recently in 2026
- Stinger - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
- Winged stinger - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Fig pollinator - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Hornet's kin - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Flying stinger - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Mud dauber, e.g. - used 12 times, most recently in 2017
- Hornet - used 11 times, most recently in 2007
- Kind of waist - used 11 times, most recently in 2002
- Yellow jacket - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- Big stinger - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Hornet, e.g. - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Narrow-waisted stinger - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Slender-waisted insect - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- Nasty stinger - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Stinging flier - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Yellow jacket, for one - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Bee's cousin - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Small stinger - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
Related clues
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- For fear that - LEST, used 503 times
- In that case - IFSO, used 231 times
- Pesky insect - GNAT, used 159 times
- "___ Well That Ends Well" - ALLS, used 158 times
- At that time - THEN, used 134 times
- "That makes sense" - ISEE, used 132 times
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