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The answer

MAL

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MAL answer page.

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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
• Bad beginning? - used 19 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

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.

• Cycle starter - UNI, used 60 times
• Cycle starter - TRI, used 58 times
• System starter - ECO, used 49 times
• Center starter - EPI, used 44 times
• Meal starter - OAT, used 41 times
• Ode title starter - TOA, used 33 times

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