Thin tuft

The answer

WISP

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the WISP answer page.

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2011; first recorded in 1988. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for WISP

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

• Bit of smoke - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
• Trace of smoke - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Thin strand - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Trace - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Will-o'-the-___ - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
• Smoke trace - used 10 times, most recently in 2009
• Fleeting trace - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
• Handful of straw - used 9 times, most recently in 2009
• Puff of smoke - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Shred. - used 8 times, most recently in 1966
• Thin puff of smoke - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Faint trace - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Filmy piece. - used 7 times, most recently in 1984
• Curl of smoke - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Puff - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Tendril - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Tendril of smoke - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Thin streak - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Thin trail of smoke - used 6 times, most recently in 2024

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.

• "The Thin Man" dog - ASTA, used 105 times
• Thin nail - BRAD, used 68 times
• Thin cut - SLIT, used 58 times
• Thin coin - DIME, used 57 times
• "The Thin Man" pooch - ASTA, used 56 times
• Thin board - SLAT, used 55 times

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