Narrow escape exclamation

The answer

PHEW

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

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for PHEW

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

• "That was close!" - used 117 times, most recently in 2026
• "What a relief!" - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• "That was a close one!" - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Sound of relief - used 14 times, most recently in 2019
• "Close one!" - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• "Am I glad that's over!" - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Sigh of relief - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• "Close call!" - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Cry of relief - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
• Exclamation of relief - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
• "I'm glad that's over!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Expression of relief - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
• "That's a relief!" - used 8 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.

• Narrow cut - SLIT, used 186 times
• Narrow opening - SLIT, used 151 times
• Narrow valley - GLEN, used 105 times
• Escape - FLEE, used 75 times
• Narrow inlets - RIAS, used 66 times
• Narrow road - LANE, used 49 times

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