Eyelid annoyance

The answer

STYE

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

Used 21 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for STYE

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

• Eyelid woe - used 131 times, most recently in 2026
• Eye sore - used 88 times, most recently in 2026
• Eye problem - used 81 times, most recently in 2026
• Eyelid problem - used 78 times, most recently in 2026
• Eye affliction - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
• Eyelid affliction - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
• Eyelid irritation - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Eye annoyance - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
• Eyelid bump - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Ocular woe - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Eye woe - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Eyelid inflammation - used 29 times, most recently in 2024
• Eye ailment - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Eye irritation - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Eyelid swelling - used 23 times, most recently in 2017
• Ophthalmologist's concern - used 22 times, most recently in 2024

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.

• Annoyance - PEST, used 96 times
• Eyelid hair - LASH, used 45 times
• Faucet annoyance - DRIP, used 41 times
• Annoyance - PAIN, used 24 times

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