Bert's buddy

The answer

ERNIE

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

Used 125 times across 29 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 22 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ERNIE

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

• Bert's pal - used 58 times, most recently in 2026
• Bert's "Sesame Street" pal - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Orange Muppet - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• "Sesame Street" character - used 38 times, most recently in 2024
• "Sesame Street" regular - used 38 times, most recently in 2021
• "Rubber Duckie" singer - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Tennessee __ Ford - used 31 times, most recently in 2023
• Bert's roommate - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Golfer Els - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Banks of baseball - used 27 times, most recently in 2023
• Bert's Muppet pal - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Comic Kovacs - used 25 times, most recently in 2017
• Banks of Chicago - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
• Journalist Pyle - used 23 times, most recently in 2014
• Pyle or Kovacs - used 22 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.

• Baja buddy - AMIGO, used 50 times
• Actor Buddy - EBSEN, used 41 times
• Barcelona buddy - AMIGO, used 34 times
• Buddy - AMIGO, used 33 times
• ___ buddy - BOSOM, used 31 times
• Buddy of "The Beverly Hillbillies" - EBSEN, used 25 times

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