Bad beginning?
The crossword clue "Bad beginning?" is answered by MAL, a 3-letter entry. Used 19 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
MAL
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MAL answer page.
Used 19 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 8 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.
- MISSTART (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for MAL
Every other clue in this collection answered by MAL, most used first.
- ___ de mer - used 213 times, most recently in 2026
- Bad start? - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Bad: Prefix - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- ___ de mer (seasickness) - used 24 times, most recently in 2023
- Prefix for content - used 15 times, most recently in 2016
- Prefix meaning "bad" - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Opposite of bien - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Prefix with content - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
- Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du ___" - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
- ___ du pays (homesickness) - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
- Prefix with practice - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Bad, in Bordeaux - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Practice starter - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
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.
- Go bad - ROT, used 373 times
- New beginning? - NEO, used 83 times
- Bad-mouth - DIS, used 80 times
- Turn bad - ROT, used 71 times
- Feel bad - AIL, used 56 times
- Feel bad about - RUE, used 56 times
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