Crossword-Solution: WISP 4 letters, 171 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Wisp	n.	A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance.
Wisp	n.	A whisk, or small broom.
Wisp	n.	A Will-o'-the-wisp; an ignis fatuus.
Wisp	v. t.	To brush or dress, an with a wisp.
Wisp	v. t.	To rumple.

We have 171 clues for the answer “WISP”

Clue	Answers
Delicate strand of smoke or hair	1 answer
A little hay.	1 answer
Anything small or slight.	1 answer
Barely noticeable amount	1 answer
Bit of a smoke screen?	1 answer
Bit of hair or smoke	1 answer
Bit of hay	1 answer
Bit of smoke or hair	1 answer
Bit of straw	1 answer
Bit of straw or hay.	1 answer
Cigar emanation	1 answer
Cirrus cloud formation	1 answer
Cirrus cloud's shape	1 answer
Cloud bit	1 answer
Curl of a cloud	1 answer
Curl of smoke	1 answer
Delicate lock of hair	1 answer
Delicate person	1 answer
Delicate tendril.	1 answer
Faint cloud	1 answer
Faint puff	1 answer
Faint trace, as of smoke	1 answer
Filmy piece	1 answer
Filmy strand	1 answer
Finger of smoke	1 answer
Fleeting puff	1 answer
Fleeting trace	1 answer
Flimsy lock	1 answer
Flimsy piece.	1 answer
Flyaway bit of hair	1 answer
Fragment or shred	1 answer
Frail thing	1 answer
Handful of hay	1 answer
Handful of straw	1 answer
Hay handful	1 answer
Insubstantial lock	1 answer
Mere indication	1 answer
Mere trace.	1 answer
Miniature cloud	1 answer
No heavy cloud	1 answer
One easily blown away	1 answer
Paltry puff	1 answer
Part of a smoke screen?	1 answer
Piece of straw.	1 answer
Pufflet	1 answer
Shred of cirrus	1 answer
Slender amount	1 answer
Slender trace	1 answer
Slender twisted bit of something.	1 answer
Slender twisted piece of something.	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

AEERT

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with WISP (5)

The little speck of life he placed on a wisp of hay before the small stove, where a can of milk was simmering.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

The Jackdaws had stolen it to the last wisp and flung it all into the chasm that yawned for hundreds of feet beneath the nest.

The Marvellous Land of Oz L. Frank Baum 1993

Atkinson was leaning against a tree with a listless face; Quinton’s wife was still at her window; the doctor had gone strolling round the end of the conservatory; they could see his cigar like a will-o’-the-wisp; and the fakir still sat rigid and yet rocking, while the trees above him began to rock and almost to roar.

The Innocence of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 1995

The first decade was merely a prolongation of the vain search for freedom, the boom that seemed ever barely to elude their grasp,--like a tantalizing will-o'-the-wisp, maddening and misleading the headless host.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various 2008

From gloom where mocks that will-o'-wisp, Free-will I heard a voice cry: "Say, give us a chance." Chance! Oh, there is no chance! The scene is set.

The Spell of the Yukon Robert Service 1995

Quotes with WISP (3)

So what I want to know is why it is that I can no longer find you, in my mind. You are still there, just, but you are there like a ghost, a will o' the wisp. Not long ago you burned--your heart burned--in my mind like silver fire. But after that night in the inn it became patchy and dim, and now it is not there at all.""Could it be that the heart that you seek is no longer my own? I have given my heart to another.""The boy? The one in the inn? With the unicorn?""Yes.""You sho…

Neil Gaiman Stardust

Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. --People of Sparks--

Jeanne DuPrau

It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for, and she will leave you with nothing but mist and fog. She'll take your joy. And one day you'll wake and your heart and soul will have gone. A husk you'll be, a wisp you'll be, and a thing no more than a dream on waking, or a memory of something forgotten.

Neil Gaiman Coraline

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 238 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).