Flunk out

The answer

FAIL

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

Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1979. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for FAIL

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

• Go belly up - used 32 times, most recently in 2023
• Fall short - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Flunk - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• Get an F - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
• Come up short - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Be unsuccessful - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Go under - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Go bankrupt - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• Epic ___ - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Not make the grade - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
• Disappoint. - used 7 times, most recently in 1986
• Give out - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Fall flat - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Miss the mark - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Not pass - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Strike out - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Wash out - used 6 times, most recently in 2016

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.

• Leave out - OMIT, used 929 times
• Way out - EXIT, used 285 times
• Try out - TEST, used 242 times
• Send out - EMIT, used 240 times
• Out of control - AMOK, used 212 times
• Dole (out) - METE, used 206 times

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