Fail to prevail
The crossword clue "Fail to prevail" is answered by LOSE, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2007. 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
LOSE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LOSE answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2007. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for LOSE
Every other clue in this collection answered by LOSE, most used first.
- Misplace - used 260 times, most recently in 2026
- Mislay - used 50 times, most recently in 2023
- Suffer defeat - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
- Come up short - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
- Come in second - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Come in last - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Forfeit - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
- Be defeated - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Get rid of - used 28 times, most recently in 2024
- Finish last - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
- Shake - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Diet successfully - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
- Give the slip to - used 21 times, most recently in 2022
- Ditch - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Shake off - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Take it on the chin - used 17 times, most recently in 2013
- Get checkmated - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Take a beating - used 14 times, most recently in 2019
- Be bested - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Fail to win - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Go down - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Finish second - used 11 times, most recently in 2017
- Be vanquished - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Fail to keep - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Get whupped - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
- Shake, as a tail - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Shed - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Get bested - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Go down in defeat - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Get beaten - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Get defeated - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Get trounced - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Leave in the dust - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Miss. - used 8 times, most recently in 1968
- Gamble badly - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
- Get whipped - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Leave behind - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Fail to mention - OMIT, used 209 times
- Fail to include - OMIT, used 154 times
- Fail to see - MISS, used 27 times
- Fail to hit - MISS, used 25 times
- Fail to notice - MISS, used 19 times
- Fail to keep a secret - BLAB, used 17 times
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