Deal with adversity

The answer

COPE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the COPE answer page.

Used 19 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for COPE

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

• Deal (with) - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
• Make do - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Manage somehow - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Manage - used 38 times, most recently in 2023
• Deal with it - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Get by - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Handle adversity - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Deal - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
• Make do somehow - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Contend (with) - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Deal with difficulties - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Deal with difficulty - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Hack it - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Handle difficulties - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Get along - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Get by somehow - used 6 times, most recently in 2023

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.

• Prefix with dynamic - AERO, used 152 times
• Share a border with - ABUT, used 152 times
• Done with - OVER, used 145 times
• With: Fr. - AVEC, used 132 times
• With skill - ABLY, used 127 times
• Mix with a spoon - STIR, used 117 times

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