"By gosh!"

The answer

EGAD

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

Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for EGAD

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

• "Zounds!" - used 328 times, most recently in 2026
• "Yikes!" - used 108 times, most recently in 2026
• Old oath - used 105 times, most recently in 2026
• Mild oath - used 99 times, most recently in 2026
• "My word!" - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
• Old-time oath - used 48 times, most recently in 2025
• "Good grief!" - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Mild expletive - used 41 times, most recently in 2011
• "Good heavens!" - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• "Heavens to Betsy!" - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
• Quaint oath - used 32 times, most recently in 2024
• "Holy moly!" - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• "By Jove!" - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• "Holy cow!" - used 30 times, most recently in 2024
• "Goodness gracious!" - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Minced oath. - used 29 times, most recently in 2010
• "Omigosh!" - used 24 times, most recently in 2020
• "My stars!" - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• "Heavens!" - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• "Holy Toledo!" - used 19 times, most recently in 2023
• "Bejabbers!" - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
• "Great Scott!" - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Euphemistic oath - used 13 times, most recently in 2008
• "I say!" - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• "My goodness!" - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• "Oh my!" - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• "Yipes!" - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
• "Holy smokes!" - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• "Great Caesar's ghost!" - used 11 times, most recently in 2011
• Antiquated oath - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
• "Holy smoke!" - used 10 times, most recently in 2011
• "Jeepers!" - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Mild exclamation - used 10 times, most recently in 2008
• Old-time exclamation - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Quaint "Yikes!" - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• "Crikey!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• "My heavens!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Word of mock horror - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
• Cry of shock - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• Oath of old - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Old expletive - used 8 times, most recently in 2009
• Old-fashioned oath - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Old-school "OMG!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Relative of "Zounds!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2005
• Cry of mock horror - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
• "Gadzooks!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• "Good golly!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• "Horrors!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• "Ods bodkins!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Old-style oath - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Quaint exclamation - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Quaint outburst - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
• Victorian oath - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
• Archaic oath - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• "Criminy!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• "Gracious!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• "Heavens to Murgatroyd!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• "Holy mackerel!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Oh my gosh! - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• Old-fashioned "Oh, my!" - 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.

• "Gosh darn it!" - RATS, used 9 times
• "Gosh darn it!" - DRAT, used 8 times

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