Hurt

The answer

AIL

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AIL answer page.

Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2022. It appears in 6 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.

• ACHE (56 uses in xd)
• ACHED (44 uses in xd)
• HARM (17 uses in xd)
• PAIN (12 uses in xd)
• INJURE (10 uses in xd)

Other clues for AIL

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

• Have a bug - used 201 times, most recently in 2026
• Feel poorly - used 185 times, most recently in 2026
• Trouble - used 151 times, most recently in 2026
• Suffer - used 127 times, most recently in 2026
• Be under the weather - used 118 times, most recently in 2026
• Be sick - used 106 times, most recently in 2026
• Feel unwell - used 90 times, most recently in 2026
• Feel sick - used 86 times, most recently in 2026
• Afflict - used 63 times, most recently in 2026
• Feel crummy - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
• Feel bad - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
• Feel lousy - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
• Feel under the weather - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
• Be unwell - used 48 times, most recently in 2025
• Be indisposed - used 45 times, most recently in 2024
• Feel ill - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Feel off - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
• Have the flu - used 35 times, most recently in 2025
• Have something - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Distress - used 28 times, most recently in 2023
• Feel out of sorts - used 27 times, most recently in 2022
• Bother - used 25 times, most recently in 2022
• Have the blahs - used 24 times, most recently in 2019
• Be out of sorts - used 23 times, most recently in 2019
• Feel awful - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• Feel rotten - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Have the sniffles - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Not feel well - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Have a cold - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Feel queasy - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Need a doctor - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
• Be bedridden - used 14 times, most recently in 2018
• Be ill - used 14 times, most recently in 2020
• Feel feverish - used 14 times, most recently in 2017
• Be laid up - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Feel malaise - used 13 times, most recently in 2019
• Feel miserable - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
• Need medical attention - used 10 times, most recently in 2014
• Feel below par - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Feel fluish - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
• Be in poor health - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Be off - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Feel sickly - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Need nursing - used 8 times, most recently in 2011
• Plague - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Be under par - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Catch a bug, say - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Feel under par - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Not be well - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Take to one's bed - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Catch a bug - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Cause trouble to - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Feel yucky - used 6 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.

• "That's gotta hurt" - OOF, used 26 times
• What it doesn't hurt to do - ASK, used 13 times
• "That hurt!" - OOF, used 10 times
• "That's gotta hurt!" - OOH, used 10 times
• "That punch hurt!" - OOF, used 7 times
• "That hurt!" - YOW, used 6 times

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