"Phooey!"

The answer

RATS

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

Used 172 times across 38 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 18 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.

• DRAT (213 uses in xd)
• BAH (92 uses in xd)
• DARN (67 uses in xd)
• DANG (43 uses in xd)
• NERTS (40 uses in xd)

Other clues for RATS

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

• "Darn it!" - used 101 times, most recently in 2026
• "Darn!" - used 55 times, most recently in 2025
• Charlie Brown expletive - used 32 times, most recently in 2021
• "Doggone!" - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Word of disgust - used 28 times, most recently in 2023
• "Peanuts" expletive - used 26 times, most recently in 2019
• Lab-maze runners - used 21 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.

• "Phooey!" - DRAT, used 213 times
• "Phooey!" - DARN, used 67 times
• "Phooey!" - DANG, used 43 times
• "Phooey!" - NUTS, used 31 times

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