Forfeits

The answer

LOSES

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LOSES answer page.

Used 13 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• CEDES (4 uses in xd)
• LOSSES (2 uses in xd)

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
• 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
• Doesn't win - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• 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.

• Sierra ___ - LEONE, used 374 times
• "___ luck!" - LOTSA, used 183 times
• Rodeo rope - LASSO, used 177 times
• Suspicious - LEERY, used 173 times
• Endures - LASTS, used 153 times
• Reluctant - LOATH, used 139 times

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