"How awful!"

The answer

UGH

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

Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• OHNO (24 uses in xd)
• ICK (4 uses in xd)
• OHDEAR (4 uses in xd)
• ALAS (2 uses in xd)
• HORRORS (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for UGH

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

• "Gross!" - used 92 times, most recently in 2026
• "Yuck!" - used 90 times, most recently in 2026
• "That's gross!" - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
• "That's disgusting!" - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Word of disgust - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• "That's awful!" - used 37 times, most recently in 2025
• Sound of disgust - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
• "Yecch!" - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Cry of disgust - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• "This tastes awful!" - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
• Exclamation of disgust - used 27 times, most recently in 2024
• Expression of disgust - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• "Disgusting!" - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
• "Blech!" - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• "Ick!" - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• "I hate it!" - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• "Bleah!" - used 14 times, most recently in 2020
• "How disgusting!" - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• "That turns my stomach!" - used 13 times, most recently in 2015
• "This tastes terrible!" - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• "How revolting!" - used 12 times, most recently in 2014
• "That's revolting!" - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• "That's icky!" - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• "That's yucky!" - used 10 times, most recently in 2012
• "How gross!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• "How repulsive!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Sound of discomfort - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• "Blecch!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• "Not again!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• "Eww!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Sound of distaste - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• "That's so gross!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• "That's terrible!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Cry of distaste - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Cry of revulsion - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Disgusted reply - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Horrors! - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• "I hate this" - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Shout of disgust - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• "That's nasty!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Vocalized grunt - used 6 times, most recently in 2014

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.

• "How was ___ know?" - ITO, used 164 times
• "How come?" - WHY, used 44 times
• "How about that!" - GEE, used 41 times
• "How cute!" - AWW, used 36 times
• "And how!" - DOI, used 32 times
• Awful - BAD, used 27 times

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