Big failure
The crossword clue "Big failure" is answered by FLOP, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
FLOP
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FLOP answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for FLOP
Every other clue in this collection answered by FLOP, most used first.
- Dud - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
- Failure - used 23 times, most recently in 2023
- Broadway bomb - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Turkey - used 18 times, most recently in 2021
- Box-office bomb - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Complete failure - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
- Bomb - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Lay an egg - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Total failure - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Box-office failure - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Producer's nightmare - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Broadway failure - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Hit's opposite - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Fiasco - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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.
- Big rig - SEMI, used 251 times
- Big fusses - ADOS, used 111 times
- Big party - BASH, used 96 times
- Big gulp - SWIG, used 93 times
- "What's the big ___?" - IDEA, used 93 times
- Big bash - GALA, used 90 times
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