___-case scenario
The crossword clue "___-case scenario" is answered by WORST, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
WORST
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the WORST answer page.
Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for WORST
Every other clue in this collection answered by WORST, most used first.
- Defeat - used 32 times, most recently in 2018
- Bottom of the barrel - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Most awful - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Most terrible - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Least satisfactory - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Lowest-quality - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Most egregious - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Most unfavorable - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Least desirable - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Least good - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Superlatively bad - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Baddest of the bad - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
- Get the better of. - used 6 times, most recently in 2003
- Most faulty - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
- Most unsatisfactory - used 6 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.
- "___ my case" - IREST, used 102 times
- Hopeless case - GONER, used 61 times
- Best-case - IDEAL, used 18 times
- Make a case - ARGUE, used 16 times
- Best-case scenario - IDEAL, used 14 times
- "In case you ___ noticed ..." - HADNT, used 14 times
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