Doesn't win
The crossword clue "Doesn't win" is answered by LOSES, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
LOSES
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LOSES answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for LOSES
Every other clue in this collection answered by LOSES, most used first.
- Misplaces - used 69 times, most recently in 2026
- Comes in last - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Finishes last - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Suffers defeat - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Mislays - used 15 times, most recently in 2016
- Comes up short - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Forfeits - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Places last - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Comes in second - used 12 times, most recently in 2012
- Gets licked - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
- Gets whupped - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- Is defeated - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Gets the booby prize - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Meets one's Waterloo - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
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.
- Win by ___ - ANOSE, used 103 times
- Win every game - SWEEP, used 39 times
- "You win" - ILOSE, used 37 times
- Doesn't have - LACKS, used 35 times
- Doesn't leave - STAYS, used 35 times
- Surprise win - UPSET, used 33 times
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