Paintbrush woe
The crossword clue "Paintbrush woe" is answered by DRIP, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2011; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DRIP
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DRIP answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2011; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for DRIP
Every other clue in this collection answered by DRIP, most used first.
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- Plumbing problem - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
- Faucet annoyance - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Faucet fault - used 24 times, most recently in 2024
- Faucet flaw - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Tap trouble - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Kind of coffee - used 16 times, most recently in 2020
- Tap problem - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
- Trickle - used 13 times, most recently in 2006
- Leaky faucet sound - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Sink problem - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Coffee choice - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- What icicles do - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Annoying faucet sound - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- ___ coffee - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Coffeemaker style - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Icicle starter - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
- Nerd - used 8 times, most recently in 2005
- Leak - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Icicle former - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Party pooper - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Problem for a plumber - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Slow faucet leak - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Stalactite former - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
- Wet blanket - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
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.
- "Woe is me!" - ALAS, used 255 times
- Word of woe - ALAS, used 143 times
- Eyelid woe - STYE, used 131 times
- "Woe ___!" - ISME, used 122 times
- "Oh, woe!" - ALAS, used 71 times
- Teen's woe - ACNE, used 51 times
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