"Aw, nuts!"

The answer

DRAT

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DRAT answer page.

Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2016. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• DARN (5 uses in xd)
• RATS (4 uses in xd)
• DANGIT (1 uses in xd)
• DARNIT (1 uses in xd)
• DRATS (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for DRAT

Every other clue in this collection answered by DRAT, most used first.

• "Phooey!" - used 213 times, most recently in 2026
• "Darn it!" - used 91 times, most recently in 2026
• Mild oath - used 79 times, most recently in 2026
• Mild expletive - used 77 times, most recently in 2025
• "Doggone it!" - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
• "Shucks!" - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
• "Curses!" - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
• "Fiddlesticks!" - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• "Shoot!" - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• "Darn!" - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• "Dang!" - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• "Confound it!" - used 25 times, most recently in 2021
• "Dagnabbit!" - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• "Nuts!" - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• "Doggone!" - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
• "Rats!" - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• "Darn it all!" - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• "Blast it!" - used 12 times, most recently in 2020
• "Fudge!" - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
• "Blast!" - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• "Blast the luck!" - used 11 times, most recently in 2013
• "Oh, fudge!" - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
• "Dang it!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• "Gosh darn it!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• "Nerts!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• "Aw, heck!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• "Aw, shucks!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Cartoon expletive - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
• "Oh, bother!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2014

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Nuts - LOCO, used 35 times
• Not nuts - SANE, used 26 times
• "Nuts!" - DARN, used 25 times
• Nuts and bolts - ABCS, used 13 times
• Nuts (over) - GAGA, used 12 times
• Nuts - GAGA, used 9 times

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