Punch-in-the-gut sound
The crossword clue "Punch-in-the-gut sound" is answered by OOF, a 3-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
OOF
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OOF answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for OOF
Every other clue in this collection answered by OOF, most used first.
- Gut-punch reaction - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- "That's gotta hurt" - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- "That's rough" - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- "Ouch!" - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- "Yikes" - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- "That hurt!" - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- "That sounds painful" - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Comics cry of distress - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Punch-in-the-gut response - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Punch-in-the-gut reaction - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Punch line? - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Sock-in-the-gut sound - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- Reaction to a gut punch - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Slangy sound of discomfort - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Sock-in-the-gut grunt - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- "That punch hurt!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- "That's gonna leave a mark!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Cartoon "Ouch!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Punch-in-the-stomach sound - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- "That hurts!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- In the past - AGO, used 1,064 times
- In the style of - ALA, used 784 times
- Under the weather - ILL, used 536 times
- "___ the season ..." - TIS, used 398 times
- To the ___ degree - NTH, used 389 times
- In the manner of - ALA, used 367 times
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