Apologetic comment

The answer

OOPS

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OOPS answer page.

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for OOPS

Every other clue in this collection answered by OOPS, most used first.

• "My bad!" - used 191 times, most recently in 2026
• "Clumsy me!" - used 79 times, most recently in 2026
• "How clumsy of me!" - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
• Klutz's cry - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• Klutz's word - used 30 times, most recently in 2023
• "My mistake!" - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• "Didn't mean to do that!" - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Fumbler's word - used 25 times, most recently in 2023
• "Uh-oh!" - used 24 times, most recently in 2024
• Butterfingers' cry - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
• "Sorry!" - used 18 times, most recently in 2012
• "Sorry about that!" - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• "I dropped it!" - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Klutz's comment - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
• "I goofed" - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
• "I'm such a klutz!" - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Cry over spilled milk - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• Butterfingers' exclamation - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
• "I'm a klutz!" - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• "My b!" - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• "Sorry 'bout that!" - used 12 times, most recently in 2020
• Clumsy one's remark - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
• Clumsy one's cry - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Bumbler's utterance - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Klutz's exclamation - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
• "___! ... I Did It Again" - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Slangy exclamation. - used 7 times, most recently in 1968
• "What a klutz I am!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Cry over spilt milk? - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Klutz's remark - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
• Klutz's utterance - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• "That was a mistake!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Unwelcome word from a barber - used 6 times, most recently in 2024

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.

• Skeptical comment - IBET, used 25 times
• Skeptic's comment - IBET, used 22 times
• Cat's comment - MEOW, used 19 times
• Catty comment? - MEOW, used 18 times
• Clever comment - QUIP, used 16 times
• Suffix with comment - ATOR, used 16 times

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