Tale of ___ (sob story)

The answer

WOE

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

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2018. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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
• Great distress - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• 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
• 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

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.

• Life story, for short - BIO, used 140 times
• "Toy Story" dinosaur - REX, used 66 times
• "A likely story!" - HAH, used 65 times
• Life story - BIO, used 65 times
• Tall tale - LIE, used 53 times
• Fish story - LIE, used 47 times

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