Sea swallow
The crossword clue "Sea swallow" is answered by TERN, a 4-letter entry. Used 107 times across 52 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 15 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
TERN
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TERN answer page.
Used 107 times across 52 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 15 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TERN
Every other clue in this collection answered by TERN, most used first.
- Sea bird - used 74 times, most recently in 2014
- Beach bird - used 51 times, most recently in 2025
- Gull relative - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
- Gull's cousin - used 46 times, most recently in 2022
- Shore bird - used 37 times, most recently in 2025
- Gull cousin - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
- Seabird - used 23 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.
- Sea eagle - ERNE, used 355 times
- North Sea feeder - YSER, used 150 times
- Sheltered, at sea - ALEE, used 132 times
- Caspian Sea feeder - URAL, used 128 times
- Sea eagles - ERNS, used 128 times
- Asian sea - ARAL, used 125 times
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