Yellow jacket
The crossword clue "Yellow jacket" is answered by WASP, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1958. It appears in 5 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 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1958. It appears in 5 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.
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
- Insect that stings - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- 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
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.
- "___ yellow ribbon..." - TIEA, used 60 times
- Jacket - ETON, used 38 times
- Collar or jacket - ETON, used 33 times
- Book jacket part - FLAP, used 30 times
- Jacket - COAT, used 30 times
- Short jacket - ETON, used 26 times
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