Try to fly

The answer

FLAP

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

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for FLAP

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

• Envelope part - used 96 times, most recently in 2026
• To-do - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• Book jacket part - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Brouhaha - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
• Commotion - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
• Part of an envelope - used 12 times, most recently in 2020
• Flutter - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
• Hullabaloo - used 11 times, most recently in 2007
• Tent part - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Tizzy - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• Uproar - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• Envelope feature - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Kerfuffle - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Ruckus - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Airplane wing part - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Hoo-ha - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
• Ado - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Back of an envelope - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• Fly high - SOAR, used 380 times
• Try out - TEST, used 242 times
• Fly like an eagle - SOAR, used 141 times
• Fly alone - SOLO, used 75 times
• Fly in the ointment - SNAG, used 75 times
• "___ never fly!" - ITLL, used 54 times

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