"How clumsy of me!"

The answer

OOPS

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

Used 42 times across 18 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• OOPSIE (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for OOPS

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

• "Clumsy me!" - used 79 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
• "Didn't mean to do that!" - used 27 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• "How sweet ___!" - ITIS, used 140 times
• Clumsy ones - OAFS, used 45 times
• Having the know-how - ABLE, used 40 times
• "So that's how it is" - ISEE, used 31 times
• "How sad!" - ALAS, used 29 times

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