Prefix meaning "bad"

The answer

MAL

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

Used 14 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2012. It appears in 7 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.

• DYS (15 uses in xd)
• CAC (1 uses in xd)
• MIS (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
• Bad beginning? - used 19 times, most recently in 2023
• Prefix for content - used 15 times, most recently in 2016
• 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.

• Green prefix - ECO, used 431 times
• Go bad - ROT, used 373 times
• Numerical prefix - TRI, used 247 times
• Earth-friendly prefix - ECO, used 181 times
• Prefix with center - EPI, used 134 times
• Equal: Prefix - ISO, used 123 times

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