Painful pang
The crossword clue "Painful pang" is answered by THROE, a 5-letter entry. Used 16 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
THROE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the THROE answer page.
Used 16 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for THROE
Every other clue in this collection answered by THROE, most used first.
- Pang - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
- Spasm - used 37 times, most recently in 2025
- Paroxysm - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
- Severe pang - used 15 times, most recently in 2020
- Severe spasm - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Spasm of pain - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
- Violent spasm - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
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.
- Painful spots - SORES, used 25 times
- More painful - SORER, used 22 times
- Painful places - SORES, used 10 times
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