The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word PAIN which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2021.
Distress crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| PAIN | 23 % | 4 |
| AIL | 23 % | 3 |
| WOE | 15 % | 3 |
| VEX | 5 % | 3 |
| ALARM | 4 % | 5 |
| GRIEF | 4 % | 5 |
| HURT | 3 % | 4 |
| ANGUISH | 3 % | 7 |
| UNEASE | 3 % | 6 |
| NEED | 2 % | 4 |
| ANGST | 2 % | 5 |
| UPSET | 2 % | 5 |
| SORROW | 2 % | 6 |
| AGONY | 2 % | 5 |
| WORRY | 1 % | 5 |
| MISERY | 1 % | 6 |
| TEARAT | 1 % | 6 |
| SORENESS | 1 % | 8 |
| AGGRIEVE | 1 % | 8 |
| UNSETTLE | 1 % | 8 |
| PERIL | 1 % | 5 |
| GRIEVE | 1 % | 6 |
| GNAWAT | 1 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Distress
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- worry
- trouble
- suffering
- hurt
- ill
- distraint
- troubled
- stricken
- uneasiness
- unease
- discomfort
- frustration
Crossword Answer definitions
PAIN noun- An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
- The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
- (from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
- Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
- (chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
- To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
- To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
- To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
- Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.
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 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 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 WOE
- "__ is me!
- Hand-wringer's word
- Misfortune
- Deep distress
- Heartache
- Wednesday's child is full of it
- Grief
- Blue state?
- Misery
- Ailment
More clues leading to the result VEX
More clues leading to the result ALARM
- Home-security device
- It's arousing
- Smoke or fire
- Trails smoke or fire
- Morning sound
- Smoke detector, e.g.
- You might set one on a cellphone
- You might set one on your phone
- Eye opener of a sort
- Frighten
More clues leading to the result GRIEF
- "Good __!" ("Peanuts" phrase)
- Mourners' emotion
- "Good __!"
- A good ribbing
- Heartbreak
- "Good __, Charlie Brown!"
- "Good ___!" ("Peanuts" exclamation)
- "Good ___!"
- Heartache
- See 86 Across
More clues leading to the result HURT
More clues leading to the result ANGUISH
- Torture
- Misery
- Distress
- Mental difficulty
- Acute distress
- Lorry's friend in "Graustark."
- Torment.
- Worry
- It's heartrending
- Cause of hand wringing
More clues leading to the result UNEASE
- Anxiety
- Discomfort
- Jitters
- Perturbed condition
- Riot impetus
- Waiting-for-the-test-results feeling
- Pacing-the-floor state
- Misgiving
- Nervousness
- Disquiet
More clues leading to the result NEED
- Burden
- Poverty-stricken state
- Call for
- Can't live without
- Exigency
- Require
- Requirement
- Requisite
- Scholarship factor
- Shortfall
More clues leading to the result ANGST
- Bummed-out feeling
- Feeling for Woody
- Apprehension
- Existential turmoil
- Inner turmoil
- Emo theme
- Nirvana concept
- Nirvana theme
- Subject of many a grunge song
- Subject of many grunge songs
More clues leading to the result UPSET
- Capsize
- In an agitated state
- Knock over
- 100-to-1 underdog's victory
- Out of sorts
- Unexpected victory
- Overturn
- Sports surprise
- Tip over
- Churning
More clues leading to the result SORROW
- Grief
- It'll get you down
- Feeling after a loss
- Cause for tears
- Blueness
- Tear inducer
- Feeling of regret
- Heartache
- What turns you blue
- "Parting is such sweet ___"
More clues leading to the result AGONY
- Anguish
- Intense distress
- Suffering
- "The__ and the Ecstasy"
- Extreme pain
- Torment
- Great suffering
- Intense suspense, say
- Extreme suffering
- Hell
More clues leading to the result WORRY
- "Sorrow looks back, ___ looks around, faith looks up" (Emerson)
- Lose sleep
- Fret
- "What, me ___?" (Mad magazine motto)
- End of Alfred E. Neuman's slogan
- It "often gives a small thing a big shadow": old proverb
- Stew
- Anxiety
- Be fretful
- Gray hair dye.
More clues leading to the result MISERY
- Stephen King novel
- Stephen King novel about writer Paul Sheldon
- Lover of company
- Stephen King classic
- Wretchedness
- Oscar-winning film for Kathy Bates
- Company lover?
- Abject despair
- James Caan movie based on a Stephen King novel
- Kathy Bates Oscar-winning film
More clues leading to the result TEARAT
- Distress
- Claw
- Try to rip
- Cause anguish to
- Rip into
- Try to open excitedly, as a present
- Eagerly unwrap
- Try to rip open
- Lacerate
- Rip, as clothing
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 AGGRIEVE
More clues leading to the result UNSETTLE
More clues leading to the result PERIL
- Problem for Pauline
- Imminent danger
- Jeopardy
- Danger
- Serious risk
- Threat
- "Use at your own ___"
- Risk exposure
- Situation for Pauline
- Menace
More clues leading to the result GRIEVE
- Feel sorrow
- Mourn
- Show sorrow
- Shed tears
- Eat one's heart out
- Feel sorrow for a loss
- "For pleasures past I do not __ ...": Byron
- Lament
- Feel the pain of a loss
- Be heavy-hearted