"Goodness gracious!"

The answer

OHMY

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

Used 18 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• EGAD (29 uses in xd)
• MYMY (11 uses in xd)
• OHDEAR (11 uses in xd)
• DEARME (10 uses in xd)
• EGADS (6 uses in xd)

Other clues for OHMY

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

• "Good heavens!" - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• "Heavens!" - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• "Goodness!" - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• "Dear me!" - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• "Gracious!" - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• "Jeepers!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Words of surprise - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• "Golly!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• "Holy cow!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• "Horrors!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2021

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.

• Honest-to-goodness - REAL, used 71 times
• "Goodness gracious!" - EGAD, used 29 times
• "Goodness!" - MYMY, used 17 times
• "For goodness __!" - SAKE, used 16 times
• Symbol of goodness - HALO, used 15 times
• "My goodness!" - EGAD, used 13 times

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