Crossword clues - Answer
DIRE
DIRE is a 4-letter crossword answer with 10 clues in this collection. Across those clues it has 441 usages in the xd corpus, most recently in 2026. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
DIRE
DIRE
4Letters
10Clues in collection
441Combined xd usages
2026Most recent year
Combined usages add the xd usage counts of every clue below. Frequency figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Every clue for DIRE in this collection
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- Urgent - used 71 times across 27 distinct years, most recently in 2023
- Calamitous - used 69 times across 34 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Dreadful - used 65 times across 42 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Desperate - used 60 times across 33 distinct years, most recently in 2024
- Tragic - used 38 times across 16 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- In ___ straits - used 37 times across 20 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Terrible - used 27 times across 23 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Catastrophic - used 25 times across 17 distinct years, most recently in 2024
- Ominous - used 25 times across 16 distinct years, most recently in 2022
- Like some straits - used 24 times across 17 distinct years, most recently in 2024
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