Woodwind instrument
The crossword clue "Woodwind instrument" is answered by OBOE, a 4-letter entry. Used 332 times across 36 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 25 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
OBOE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OBOE answer page.
Used 332 times across 36 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 25 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.
- FLUTE (10 uses in xd)
- CLARINET (2 uses in xd)
- ENGLISHHORN (2 uses in xd)
Other clues for OBOE
Every other clue in this collection answered by OBOE, most used first.
- Reed instrument - used 195 times, most recently in 2026
- Hautboy - used 152 times, most recently in 2013
- Woodwind - used 146 times, most recently in 2026
- Double-reed instrument - used 140 times, most recently in 2026
- Slender woodwind - used 102 times, most recently in 2026
- Clarinet cousin - used 92 times, most recently in 2026
- Bassoon's kin - used 91 times, most recently in 2026
- Double-reed woodwind - used 87 times, most recently in 2026
- Bassoon relative - used 69 times, most recently in 2026
- Wind instrument - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Bassoon cousin - used 47 times, most recently in 2025
- Bassoon's cousin - used 46 times, most recently in 2025
- Clarinet's cousin - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
- Mitch Miller's instrument - used 41 times, most recently in 2025
- Orchestra member - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
- Bassoon kin - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Orchestral instrument. - used 35 times, most recently in 2023
- Musical instrument. - used 32 times, most recently in 2003
- Slender instrument - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- The duck in "Peter and the Wolf" - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
- Wind in a pit - used 30 times, most recently in 2024
- Certain woodwind - used 27 times, most recently in 2018
- English horn relative - used 27 times, most recently in 2023
- Orchestra instrument - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- English-horn kin - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
- Double reed - used 23 times, most recently in 2009
- One of the reeds - used 23 times, most recently in 2018
- "Peter and the Wolf" duck - used 23 times, most recently in 2023
- Reed section member - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Clarinet's kin - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Cousin of a bassoon - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
- One of the woodwinds - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
- Reed - used 22 times, most recently in 1997
- Reed in a pit - used 22 times, most recently in 2021
- Clarinet relative - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Angel's instrument - HARP, used 61 times
- Minstrel's instrument - LUTE, used 61 times
- Pear-shaped instrument - LUTE, used 61 times
- Big brass instrument - TUBA, used 48 times
- Angelic instrument - HARP, used 44 times
- Stringed instrument - VIOL, used 44 times
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