"What the ___!"
The crossword clue ""What the ___!"" is answered by HECK, a 4-letter entry. Used 21 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 14 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
HECK
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HECK answer page.
Used 21 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 14 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for HECK
Every other clue in this collection answered by HECK, most used first.
- Mild oath - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- "Darn it!" - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- "Darn!" - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- "Shucks" - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
- "Dang!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Mild expletive - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- "Shoot!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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- On the briny - ASEA, used 364 times
- From the top - ANEW, used 355 times
- Spill the beans - BLAB, used 313 times
- Away from the wind - ALEE, used 282 times
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