Great distress
The crossword clue "Great distress" is answered by WOE, a 3-letter entry. Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2008. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
WOE
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the WOE answer page.
Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2008. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for WOE
Every other clue in this collection answered by WOE, most used first.
- Misery - used 174 times, most recently in 2026
- Misfortune - used 105 times, most recently in 2026
- Trouble - used 83 times, most recently in 2026
- "___ is me!" - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
- Sorrow - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
- Anguish - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Heartache - used 35 times, most recently in 2024
- Tribulation - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Distress - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Grief - used 25 times, most recently in 2023
- Travail - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Great sorrow - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Affliction - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
- Hand-wringer's word - used 15 times, most recently in 2019
- Trial and tribulation - used 15 times, most recently in 2015
- Calamity - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Hardship - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Sadness - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Sorry state - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Wednesday's child is full of it - used 11 times, most recently in 2010
- Adversity - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Hand-wringer's feeling - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
- Heartbreak - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Sad state - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Tale of ___ (sob story) - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Deep distress - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Wretchedness - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Begone beginning - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Suffering - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Tales of __: misfortunes - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Trial - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
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