Confession in a confessional

The answer

SIN

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SIN answer page.

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SIN

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

• Transgression - used 110 times, most recently in 2026
• Sermon subject - used 67 times, most recently in 2026
• Go astray - used 61 times, most recently in 2026
• Do wrong - used 53 times, most recently in 2025
• Sermon topic - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
• Sloth, e.g. - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
• Break a commandment - used 49 times, most recently in 2025
• Fall from grace - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Moral wrong - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Sloth, for one - used 44 times, most recently in 2025
• Immoral act - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Transgress - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
• Moral wrongdoing - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Misdeed - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Moral transgression - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Moral misdeed - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Iniquity - used 17 times, most recently in 2016
• Naughty act - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Offense - used 17 times, most recently in 2019
• Moral lapse - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
• Wrong - used 16 times, most recently in 2020
• Wrongdoing - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Admission in a confessional - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Moral misstep - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Original ___ - used 14 times, most recently in 2021
• Wickedness - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
• Act immorally - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Confession topic - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Do the wrong thing - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Kind of tax - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• Biblical no-no - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Commandment violation - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
• Envy, e.g. - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Gluttony, for one - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
• Transgression of divine law - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
• Confessional topic - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Evil deed - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Go against God - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
• Item for confession - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Pride, e.g. - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Seminary subject - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Fault. - used 8 times, most recently in 1995
• It may be original - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• One of a deadly septet - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Preacher's subject - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• Pride, for one - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Trespass - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• Clerical error? - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Confession component - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Confession item - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Envy or sloth - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Gluttony, e.g. - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Greed or gluttony - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Lapse - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Moral no-no - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Religious offense - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Avarice, e.g. - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Bad deed - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Envy, for one - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Lust, for one - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
• Major no-no - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Moral crime - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Moral offense - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Moral slip - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Peccadillo - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Ungodliness - 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.

• Confessional music genre - EMO, used 20 times
• Dashboard Confessional genre - EMO, used 10 times
• Confession starter - MEA, used 8 times
• Confessional rock genre - EMO, used 8 times
• Dashboard Confessional rock genre - EMO, used 8 times
• Genre with confessional lyrics - EMO, used 6 times

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