Social faux pas
The crossword clue "Social faux pas" is answered by GAFFE, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1986. It appears in 4 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 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1986. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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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
- Embarrassing blunder - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Foot-in-mouth incident - 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.
- Social stratum - CASTE, used 66 times
- Social class - CASTE, used 65 times
- Social group - CASTE, used 55 times
- Social equals - PEERS, used 41 times
- Faux pas - ERROR, used 36 times
- Social division - CASTE, used 36 times
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