The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word AIL , but the solution may also be WOE which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in New York Times).
Trouble crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| AIL | 40 % | 3 |
| WOE | 18 % | 3 |
| ADO | 15 % | 3 |
| HOTWATER | 3 % | 8 |
| IRK | 3 % | 3 |
| EATAT | 3 % | 5 |
| VEX | 2 % | 3 |
| ANNOY | 2 % | 5 |
| NAGAT | 1 % | 5 |
| HARASS | 1 % | 6 |
| DISTRESS | 1 % | 8 |
| ILL | 1 % | 3 |
| DISTURB | 1 % | 7 |
| HAUNT | 1 % | 5 |
| BESET | 1 % | 5 |
| STATIC | 1 % | 6 |
| WORRY | 1 % | 5 |
| CONCERN | 0 % | 7 |
| HASSLE | 0 % | 6 |
| BADTURN | 0 % | 7 |
| UPSET | 0 % | 5 |
| FRET | 0 % | 4 |
| SOS | 0 % | 3 |
| FAZE | 0 % | 4 |
| HARDSHIP | 0 % | 8 |
| FLAP | 0 % | 4 |
| TSOURIS | 0 % | 7 |
| PAIN | 0 % | 4 |
| BOTHER | 0 % | 6 |
| PESTER | 0 % | 6 |
| EFFORT | 0 % | 6 |
| NAG | 0 % | 3 |
| GRIEF | 0 % | 5 |
| PAINS | 0 % | 5 |
| PERTURB | 0 % | 7 |
Why may WOE be the right solution?
"Woe" is a synonym for "trouble" and can be used to describe a state of deep distress or misery. Therefore, "woe" is the right solution for the crossword clue "trouble."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Trouble
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- hassle
- difficulty
- bother
- distress
- inconvenience
- fuss
- disquiet
- worry
- upset
- pain
- problem
- ill
Crossword Answer definitions
AIL noun- An ailment; trouble; illness.
- To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.)
- To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled.
- Painful; troublesome.
- The awn of barley or other types of corn.
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 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 ADO
More clues leading to the result HOTWATER
- Serious trouble
- Trouble
- Big trouble
- Trouble, so to speak
- Deep trouble
- *Big trouble
- *Deep trouble
- Big trouble, so to speak
- A spot
- What skating on thin ice might get you into?
More clues leading to the result IRK
More clues leading to the result EATAT
- Bug
- Vex
- "___ Joe's"
- Vex incessantly
- "__ Joe's"
- Bother over time
- Really bother
- Really irritate
- Nag, nag, nag
- __ home (dine in)
More clues leading to the result VEX
More clues leading to the result ANNOY
- Make hot under the collar
- Pester
- Slightly irritate
- Drive bonkers
- Bug
- Be on the back of
- Get under the collar of
- Be a pain in the neck
- Bother
- Irritate
More clues leading to the result NAGAT
- Bother persistently
- Keep bothering
- Find fault with
- Continually find fault with
- Bother persistently, as an injury
- Find constant fault with
- Torment
- Be shrewish with
- Needle
- Pester persistently
More clues leading to the result HARASS
- Bug
- Torment
- Dog
- Drive up a wall
- Be a constant pest
- Go beyond pestering
- Persecute
- Annoy persistently
- Hector
- Nag
More clues leading to the result DISTRESS
- Suffering
- Trouble
- Uncomfortable feeling
- Damsel's dolor.
- Damsel's woe.
- Kind of signal.
- Misery
- State of danger
- State of adversity
- See 17-Across
More clues leading to the result ILL
- "__ Never Smile Again"
- Laid up
- Out of sorts
- Under the weather
- Feeling poorly
- Not healthy
- Not well
- Sick
- Ailing
- Hardly healthy
More clues leading to the result DISTURB
- Ruffle
- Bother
- Interrupt
- "Do not" follower, on a closed-door sign
- Break in on
- Break in on.
- Roil
- Unsettle
- Trouble
- Opposite of "let sleeping dogs lie"
More clues leading to the result HAUNT
- Hangout
- Favorite hangout
- Spook
- Create fear
- Place for regulars
- Do poltergeist work
- Frequent
- Oft-visited place
- Be there in spirit?
- Make a spooky visit
More clues leading to the result BESET
- Plague
- Worry
- Assail
- Attack from all directions
- Under siege
- Harass
- Under attack
- Widely assailed
- Harried
- Hem in
More clues leading to the result STATIC
- Ham's interference
- Radio interference
- A hard time, so to speak
- Having no motion
- Sign of a bad connection
- Phone interference
- Word before electricity or cling
- Back talk, slangily
- Result of bad reception
- Crackling noise
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 CONCERN
More clues leading to the result HASSLE
- Botheration
- Bug
- Altercate
- Discompose
- Talking to customer service, typically
- Pain in the neck
- Big runaround
- Major headache
- Real pain in the ass
- Squabble
More clues leading to the result BADTURN
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 FRET
- Worry
- Guitar neck part
- Guitar part
- Fingerboard ridge
- Viol feature
- Neck division
- Neck line?
- Fender marking
- Neck line
- Neckline?
More clues leading to the result SOS
- "____ your old man!"
- ... --- ...
- 911 call
- Brillo alternative
- Call to the USCG
- Titanic's message
- "Mayday!"
- "Send help!"
- Kitchen pad
- Morse message
More clues leading to the result FAZE
More clues leading to the result HARDSHIP
- Frigid winter, to a pioneer
- Tough time
- Difficulty
- Suffering
- Common Dickensian situation.
- Cause of suffering.
- Rainy day concomitant.
- Privation
- What Alger boys endure
- Trouble
More clues leading to the result FLAP
- Book-jacket part
- To-do
- Argument
- Hopelessly try to get off the ground?
- Hunter's cap part
- It's a big deal
- Try to get off the ground?
- Airplane wing part
- Uproar
- Kerfuffle
More clues leading to the result TSOURIS
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 BOTHER
- Fuss
- Take the trouble
- Get under the skin of
- Bug
- Trouble
- Annoy
- Pester
- Petty annoyance
- Inconvenience.
- Exclamation of mild vexation.
More clues leading to the result PESTER
More clues leading to the result EFFORT
- Earnest attempt
- Industry
- What E may be for
- Physical exertion
- Exertion
- Struggle
- Sincere attempt
- Elbow grease
- Diligence
- Good try
More clues leading to the result NAG
- Harp
- Worthless horse
- Fuss at
- Get on someone's case
- Harry
- Henpeck
- Old horse or ex-wife
- Pester
- Remind and remind and remind
- Annoy
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 PAINS
- Annoying ones
- Tylenol targets
- See 7 Across
- Unpleasant feelings
- Assiduous care
- Nuisances
- Laborious efforts
- Aches and ___
- Careful efforts
- Exceptional effort