Bailout button

The answer

ESC

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ESC answer page.

Used 11 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2012. It appears in 2 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.

• EJECT (4 uses in xd)
• ESCAPEKEY (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for ESC

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

• PC key - used 239 times, most recently in 2026
• Computer key - used 110 times, most recently in 2026
• F1 neighbor - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
• PC bailout key - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
• Corner key - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
• Upper-left key - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• PC panic button - used 39 times, most recently in 2022
• Upper-left PC key - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
• "Exit full screen" key - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Corner PC key - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Top-left PC key - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Key above ~ - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Key near F1 - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• PC "oops" key - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Bailout key - used 18 times, most recently in 2019
• Upper-left keyboard key - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Top-left keyboard key - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Emergency PC key - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Exit key - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Key next to F1 - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Keyboard key - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Top-left key - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Laptop key - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
• PC "Go back!" key - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Corner key on a PC - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Key in a corner - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• PC's undo key - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Upper-left computer key - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Window-closing key - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• PC corner key - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• PC "undo" key - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Emergency key - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Key for exiting full-screen mode - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Key for getting out - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• PC key near F1 - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• PC panic key - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Corner keyboard key - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Exit-the-program key - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• Key in the corner - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Key to get out? - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• PC bailout - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
• PC key abbr. - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Top-row PC key - used 6 times, most recently in 2020

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• Camcorder button - REC, used 39 times
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• Remote button - REC, used 22 times
• DVR remote button - REC, used 18 times

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