Embarrassing blunder
The crossword clue "Embarrassing blunder" is answered by GAFFE, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2016. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
GAFFE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GAFFE answer page.
Used 8 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2024; 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 clues for GAFFE
Every other clue in this collection answered by GAFFE, most used first.
- Faux pas - used 80 times, most recently in 2025
- Social blunder - used 78 times, most recently in 2026
- Blunder - used 23 times, most recently in 2024
- Embarrassing mistake - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Blooper - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Foot-in-mouth incident - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Social faux pas - 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.
- Blunder - ERROR, used 55 times
- Embarrassing display - SCENE, used 24 times
- Made a blunder - ERRED, used 15 times
- Baseball blunder - ERROR, used 14 times
- Embarrassing outburst - SCENE, used 9 times
- Shortstop's blunder - ERROR, used 7 times
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