Recoil in pain
The crossword clue "Recoil in pain" is answered by WINCE, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
WINCE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the WINCE answer page.
Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for WINCE
Every other clue in this collection answered by WINCE, most used first.
- Flinch - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Recoil - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Cringe - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Show pain - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Pained reaction - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Grimace - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Pained expression - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Recoil from pain - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Shrink back - used 7 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.
- Pain relief brand - ALEVE, used 35 times
- Extreme pain - AGONY, used 31 times
- Pain in the neck - CRICK, used 19 times
- Great pain - AGONY, used 18 times
- Intense pain - AGONY, used 14 times
- Sharp, as pain - ACUTE, used 13 times
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