Painful places
The crossword clue "Painful places" is answered by SORES, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1973. 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
SORES
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SORES answer page.
Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1973. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SORES
Every other clue in this collection answered by SORES, most used first.
- Tender spots - used 103 times, most recently in 2026
- Sensitive spots - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Painful spots - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Tender areas - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Lesions - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Achy spots - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Saddle or bed woes - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
- Results of chafing - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
- Wounds - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
- Sensitive skin spots - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Salve targets - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Tender places - used 6 times, most recently in 2004
- With "eye," public blights - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
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.
- Perfect places - EDENS, used 136 times
- Places in the heart - ATRIA, used 63 times
- Idyllic places - EDENS, used 45 times
- Places - SITES, used 45 times
- In different places - APART, used 30 times
- Blissful places - EDENS, used 23 times
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