Crossword clue
Sea eagle crossword clue
3 words in our dictionary can answer the crossword clue "sea eagle", from 3 letters up to 6, grouped below by the length of your slot.
Written by Blake Boege
Answers by length
Read the row that matches your slot. ERN is the shortest answer here and OSPREY the longest.
| Letters | Answers |
|---|---|
| 3 |
|
| 4 |
|
| 6 |
|
What this list looks like
Setters reach for 3-letter answers constantly, and here that means ERN.
The list mixes 1 synonym with 2 examples of the thing itself.
Which one does the setter mean?
Three squares is ERN and four is ERNE, and they are the same bird spelled two ways. This pair is one of the most reliable answers in all of crosswords, precisely because those letters are so easy to cross.
How these differ
ERN and ERNE are the old English name for the white-tailed eagle, a coastal fish-eater and the largest bird of prey in Britain. The word survived in poetry and then in puzzles long after it left ordinary speech, which is why almost nobody uses it and almost every solver knows it. OSPREY is a different bird entirely, a specialist fish-hunter that dives feet first, and it is not strictly an eagle at all, though the clue is fair since it is universally called a sea hawk or sea eagle.
Still stuck? Filter by the letters you have
Got a crossing letter? The word finder searches the same dictionary as this page, with a box for the first letter, the last, and anything in between.
Where these answers come from
Computed, not copied. Every word above is recorded by WordNet as meaning “sea eagle” or as naming a kind of it, and each one is in the 173,000-wordlist this site searches. We hold no newspaper's answer key and reproduce no published crossword.
Common questions
- What is the answer to the crossword clue "sea eagle"?
- There is more than one. 3 words in our dictionary fit this clue, and which one a puzzle wants depends on the length of the slot and the crossing letters. Three squares is ERN and four is ERNE, and they are the same bird spelled two ways. This pair is one of the most reliable answers in all of crosswords, precisely because those letters are so easy to cross.
- How many letters is the answer to "sea eagle"?
- Anything from 3 to 6. The length with the most candidates is 3. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.