Bad writer
The crossword clue "Bad writer" is answered by HACK, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1973. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
HACK
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HACK answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1973. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for HACK
Every other clue in this collection answered by HACK, most used first.
- Cabbie - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Break into, as a computer - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Mediocre writer - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Untalented writer - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
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.
- Writer Wiesel - ELIE, used 231 times
- Goes bad - ROTS, used 226 times
- "My bad!" - OOPS, used 191 times
- "Too bad!" - ALAS, used 136 times
- Writer Ferber - EDNA, used 117 times
- Writer Bombeck - ERMA, used 116 times
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