Ill at ___ (uncomfortable)

The answer

EASE

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

Used 28 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for EASE

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

• Facility - used 295 times, most recently in 2026
• Simplicity - used 233 times, most recently in 2026
• Relaxation - used 181 times, most recently in 2026
• Alleviate - used 169 times, most recently in 2026
• Lighten - used 148 times, most recently in 2026
• Make simpler - used 136 times, most recently in 2026
• Life of Riley - used 109 times, most recently in 2025
• Effortlessness - used 103 times, most recently in 2026
• Leisure - used 83 times, most recently in 2026
• Lack of difficulty - used 82 times, most recently in 2026
• Make less difficult - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
• Simplify - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
• With the greatest of ___ - used 67 times, most recently in 2026
• Naturalness - used 59 times, most recently in 2024
• The life of Riley - used 53 times, most recently in 2018
• Move carefully - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Peace of mind - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ on Down the Road" - used 38 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.

• Ill-mannered - RUDE, used 67 times
• Ill-considered - RASH, used 34 times

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