ALAS

The answer

ALAS

Combined usages add the xd usage counts of every clue below. Frequency figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Every clue for ALAS in this collection

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• "Woe is me!" - used 255 times across 59 distinct years, most recently in 2026
• "Sad to say ..." - used 250 times across 31 distinct years, most recently in 2026
• Word of woe - used 143 times across 46 distinct years, most recently in 2026
• "Too bad!" - used 136 times across 54 distinct years, most recently in 2025
• Regrettably - used 126 times across 24 distinct years, most recently in 2026
• Word of regret - used 124 times across 50 distinct years, most recently in 2025
• "Ah, me!" - used 112 times across 53 distinct years, most recently in 2023
• "Sadly ..." - used 91 times across 23 distinct years, most recently in 2026
• "Sorry to say . . ." - used 84 times across 26 distinct years, most recently in 2026
• "Unfortunately ..." - used 84 times across 28 distinct years, most recently in 2026
• Woeful word - used 80 times across 37 distinct years, most recently in 2026
• "___, poor Yorick!" - used 75 times across 37 distinct years, most recently in 2025
• "Oh, woe!" - used 71 times across 27 distinct years, most recently in 2025
• "That's too bad" - used 64 times across 22 distinct years, most recently in 2026
• "What a shame!" - used 63 times across 25 distinct years, most recently in 2026
• "What a pity!" - used 62 times across 28 distinct years, most recently in 2026
• "That's a shame" - used 60 times across 21 distinct years, most recently in 2026
• Dear me! - used 58 times across 35 distinct years, most recently in 2025
• "Oh, dear!" - used 54 times across 29 distinct years, most recently in 2021
• Woeful cry - used 47 times across 28 distinct years, most recently in 2026
• [sigh] - used 46 times across 19 distinct years, most recently in 2026
• Cry of dismay - used 40 times across 26 distinct years, most recently in 2026
• Wistful word - used 39 times across 21 distinct years, most recently in 2026
• "Poor me!" - used 37 times across 21 distinct years, most recently in 2025
• "'Tis a pity" - used 34 times across 19 distinct years, most recently in 2025
• Sighed word - used 32 times across 16 distinct years, most recently in 2025
• "Such a pity!" - used 32 times across 9 distinct years, most recently in 2025
• Weary word - used 31 times across 13 distinct years, most recently in 2024
• Wellaway! - used 31 times across 23 distinct years, most recently in 2014
• "How sad!" - used 29 times across 19 distinct years, most recently in 2026
• Word said with a sigh - used 27 times across 13 distinct years, most recently in 2026
• Quaint plaint - used 22 times across 12 distinct years, most recently in 2024

Related answers

Answers in this collection that start with the same letter, most used first. Browse every answer starting with A.

• AREA - 4 letters, 6,116 combined xd usages, 62 clues in this collection
• ALOE - 4 letters, 4,060 combined xd usages, 55 clues in this collection
• ALSO - 4 letters, 3,134 combined xd usages, 23 clues in this collection
• ARIA - 4 letters, 2,800 combined xd usages, 38 clues in this collection
• ANTI - 4 letters, 2,581 combined xd usages, 32 clues in this collection
• ANEW - 4 letters, 2,564 combined xd usages, 20 clues in this collection
• ABLE - 4 letters, 2,523 combined xd usages, 28 clues in this collection
• ALOT - 4 letters, 2,446 combined xd usages, 29 clues in this collection

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