Pained cry
The crossword clue "Pained cry" is answered by YOW, a 3-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2017. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
YOW
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the YOW answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2017. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for YOW
Every other clue in this collection answered by YOW, most used first.
- "That hurts!" - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
- "Ouch!" - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- "That smarts!" - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Cry of pain - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- "That hurt!" - used 6 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.
- Cry of discovery - AHA, used 155 times
- Flamenco cry - OLE, used 134 times
- Corrida cry - OLE, used 124 times
- Kitten's cry - MEW, used 119 times
- Cry loudly - SOB, used 113 times
- Cry of insight - AHA, used 97 times
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