Regretful person

The answer

RUER

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

Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2011. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for RUER

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

• Regretful one - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
• Contrite one - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Remorseful one - used 26 times, most recently in 2021
• Sorry sort - used 25 times, most recently in 2022
• One with regrets - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
• Sorry soul - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
• Repentant one - used 13 times, most recently in 2010
• Sorry one - used 11 times, most recently in 1992
• Penitent one - used 10 times, most recently in 2009
• Penitent - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
• One having second thoughts - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• He's sorry now - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
• Who's sorry now? - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Regretful sort - used 6 times, most recently in 2022

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.

• Per person - EACH, used 135 times
• Person, place or thing - NOUN, used 111 times
• First person - ADAM, used 94 times
• Annoying person - PEST, used 93 times
• Hilarious person - RIOT, used 91 times
• Per person - APOP, used 76 times

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