Crossword clues - Answer
OWE
OWE is a 3-letter crossword answer with 27 clues in this collection. Across those clues it has 1,580 usages in the xd corpus, most recently in 2026. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
OWE
OWE
3Letters
27Clues in collection
1,580Combined 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 OWE in this collection
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- Have debts - used 217 times across 34 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Have bills - used 165 times across 32 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Be in debt - used 146 times across 38 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Be in the red - used 135 times across 38 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Need to pay - used 82 times across 26 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Be indebted to - used 81 times across 36 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Be in arrears - used 65 times across 21 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Be beholden to - used 62 times across 36 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Be behind - used 56 times across 26 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- "I ___ you one" - used 53 times across 22 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Need to repay - used 42 times across 12 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- See red? - used 39 times across 23 distinct years, most recently in 2024
- Have bills to pay - used 37 times across 15 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Carry a balance - used 36 times across 19 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Be shy - used 35 times across 19 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Be in debt to - used 33 times across 17 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Be short - used 33 times across 23 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Have a tab - used 32 times across 19 distinct years, most recently in 2024
- Part of IOU - used 32 times across 19 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Be indebted - used 30 times across 25 distinct years, most recently in 2026
- Come up short - used 30 times across 17 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Be in the hole - used 29 times across 21 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Be obligated to - used 23 times across 15 distinct years, most recently in 2025
- Be in hock - used 22 times across 13 distinct years, most recently in 2020
- Have unpaid bills - used 22 times across 14 distinct years, most recently in 2024
- Run up a tab - used 22 times across 15 distinct years, most recently in 2021
- Get behind - used 21 times across 14 distinct years, most recently in 2026
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