The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word YEARN , but the solution may also be DULL PAIN which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).
Ache crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| YEARN | 35 % | 5 |
| PAIN | 20 % | 4 |
| PINE | 11 % | 4 |
| YEN | 9 % | 3 |
| HURT | 6 % | 4 |
| SMART | 4 % | 5 |
| BESORE | 2 % | 6 |
| AIL | 2 % | 3 |
| DULL PAIN | 2 % | 9 |
| SORENESS | 2 % | 8 |
| THROB | 2 % | 5 |
| TUMMY | 2 % | 5 |
| CRAMP | 2 % | 5 |
| LONG | 2 % | 4 |
Why may YEN be the right solution?
The answer "YEN" for the clue "Ache" is the right solution because "YEN" can mean a strong desire or craving, which can be synonymous with an ache or longing.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Ache
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- hurt
- suffer
- smart
- languish
- yearn
- long
- yen
- pine
- pain
- soreness
- ail
- grief
Crossword Answer definitions
YEARN verb- To long, have a strong desire (for something).
- To long for something in the past with melancholy, nostalgically.
- To have strong feelings of love, sympathy, affection, etc. (toward someone).
- To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.
- To pain; to grieve; to vex.
- To curdle, as milk.
- Yearning; yen.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result YEARN
- Long
- Long for
- Feel a longing
- Want badly
- Hanker after, with "for"
- Harbor longings
- Long (for)
- Feel nostalgia, e.g.
- Pine
- Have a hankering
More clues leading to the result PAIN
- Agony
- Pesky kid
- Soreness
- Advil target
- "No ___, no gain"
- Pesky kid, e.g.
- Gain prerequisite
- Annoyance
- Obnoxious brat
- World of hurt
More clues leading to the result PINE
- Cone-bearer
- Yearn
- Grieve for
- Lodgepole tree
- Turpentine source
- Long (for)
- Car freshener scent
- Cleaner scent
- Cleaning product scent
- Feel a loss
More clues leading to the result YEN
- Craving
- Hankering
- Kyoto cash
- Kyoto currency
- Urge
- Desire
- Itch
- Yearning
- The capital of Japan?
- Major global currency unit worth about a penny
More clues leading to the result HURT
More clues leading to the result SMART
- 99's husband, on '60s TV
- Kind of cookie
- Sting
- Maxwell ___ (Agent 86)
- Witty
- He was in control
- Stylish
- Chic
- Nattily dressed
- Kind of money
More clues leading to the result BESORE
More clues leading to the result AIL
- Be sick
- Feel bad
- Feel lousy
- Feel malaise
- Have a bug
- Have it bad
- Have the blahs
- Have the miseries
- Be a bit off
- Be out of sorts
More clues leading to the result DULL PAIN
More clues leading to the result SORENESS
- Muscle malady
- That achy feeling
- Post-moving feeling
- Marathon aftermath
- Achy feeling
- First-time-in-the-saddle consequence
- Workout aftermath, often
- Post-workout feeling
- Tender quality
- Workout by-product
More clues leading to the result THROB
- Ache, but good
- After-marathon feeling
- Pulsate
- Hurt like a stubbed toe
- Pound
- Pulse
- Ache pulsingly
- Drum
- More than just ache
- More than ache
More clues leading to the result TUMMY
- Breadbasket
- Toddler's middle name?
- Kind of ache
- Toddler's stomach
- Tot's belly
- One may be tucked
- Tot's ache source
- Tot's ache spot
- Midsection, so to speak
- ___ ache.
More clues leading to the result CRAMP
- Charley horse
- Writer's problem
- Contraction
- Restrain
- Restrict
- Swimming problem
- Muscle woe
- Constrict
- Muscle ailment
- Marathoner's woe