The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SCHMO , but the solution may also be ASS which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).
Doofus crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SCHMO | 12 % | 5 |
| ASS | 10 % | 3 |
| BOZO | 10 % | 4 |
| CLOD | 9 % | 4 |
| DOLT | 8 % | 4 |
| IDIOT | 7 % | 5 |
| OAF | 6 % | 3 |
| BOOB | 5 % | 4 |
| TWIT | 4 % | 4 |
| NIMROD | 3 % | 6 |
| DODO | 3 % | 4 |
| SAP | 2 % | 3 |
| LOSER | 2 % | 5 |
| NINNY | 2 % | 5 |
| YOYO | 2 % | 4 |
| NITWIT | 2 % | 6 |
| NINCOMPOOP | 1 % | 10 |
| STUMBLEBUM | 1 % | 10 |
| MORON | 1 % | 5 |
| DWEEB | 1 % | 5 |
| DOPE | 1 % | 4 |
| PUMPKINHEAD | 1 % | 11 |
| DUMBBELL | 1 % | 8 |
| SIMP | 1 % | 4 |
| NERD | 1 % | 4 |
| NUMSKULL | 1 % | 8 |
| DIMWIT | 1 % | 6 |
| DINGALING | 1 % | 9 |
| BONEHEAD | 1 % | 8 |
| DORK | 1 % | 4 |
| NOODLEHEAD | 1 % | 10 |
| TWERP | 1 % | 5 |
| BIRDBRAIN | 1 % | 9 |
| DDDDD | 1 % | 5 |
| KLUTZ | 1 % | 5 |
| GOOBER | 1 % | 6 |
Why may ASS be the right solution?
"Ass" is a slang term used to describe a foolish or stupid person, which is synonymous with the word "doofus".
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Doofus
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- nitwit
- dimwit
- half-wit
- dumbass
- moron
- fool
- chump
- twerp
- knucklehead
- blockhead
- goofball
- idiot
Crossword Answer definitions
SCHMO noun- A stupid or obnoxious person.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SCHMO
More clues leading to the result ASS
- Balaam's beast
- Balaam's mount
- Beast of burden
- Burdened beast
- Donkey
- Mule's father
- Dolt
- Stubborn one
- Stupid one
- Total idiot
More clues leading to the result BOZO
- Larry Harmon creation
- Fool
- Red-haired clown
- TV clown
- Many a politician
- Dummkopf
- Nimrod
- Yahoo
- Dunce
- Clown handle
More clues leading to the result CLOD
More clues leading to the result DOLT
More clues leading to the result IDIOT
- Dostoyevsky's "The __"
- Dunderhead
- __ savant
- __-proof (easy to operate)
- Bonehead
- Lamebrain
- Mooncalf
- Nincompoop
- Doofus
- Shit-for-brains
More clues leading to the result OAF
- Clod
- Lout
- No genius
- Bull in a china shop, maybe
- Bumpkin
- Galoot
- Crude dude
- Unlikely ballet dancer
- Muttonhead
- Stumblebum
More clues leading to the result BOOB
- Dunce
- Ninny
- Numbskull
- Awkward one
- Knocker
- Nursing need
- Side-___ (something that's apparently highly newsworthy to the Huffington Post)
- Side-___ (sight with a loose-fitting top)
- Dumb cluck
- Tube devotee?
More clues leading to the result TWIT
More clues leading to the result NIMROD
- Idiot
- Bozo
- Hunter in Genesis
- Noah's grandson
- Biblical hunter
- Mighty hunter
- Jerk
- Dodo
- Hunter descendant of Noah
- Stupid person, informally
More clues leading to the result DODO
More clues leading to the result SAP
More clues leading to the result LOSER
- "The Born __"
- Consistent failure
- Wanderer
- Hardly a winner
- He has lots of sour-grapes?
- Jenny Craig fan
- Short-straw drawer
- Beck single of 1993
- Beck's breakout single
- Early Beck single
More clues leading to the result NINNY
More clues leading to the result YOYO
- Inept one
- Dither
- Spinning toy
- Cellist Ma
- Thing on a string
- Spooled toy
- Duncan toy
- Be wildly unstable
- "Rock the cradle" toy
- Duncan product
More clues leading to the result NITWIT
More clues leading to the result NINCOMPOOP
More clues leading to the result STUMBLEBUM
More clues leading to the result MORON
- Dumbbell
- Empty head
- Rear view? (or ... dummy)
- Asshat
- Jerk
- Word coined by psychologist H.H. Goddard in 1910
- Egghead's opposite
- Butt of many a joke
- Dim bulb
- Imbecile
More clues leading to the result DWEEB
- Yes-man
- Screech Powers, famously
- Nerd
- Dork
- Live action role player, likely
- Taped-glasses type
- Tinder reject, likely
- Nerdy sort
- Social misfit
- Wimp
More clues leading to the result DOPE
More clues leading to the result PUMPKINHEAD
More clues leading to the result DUMBBELL
- Free weight
- Ignoramus
- Aerobic exercise prop
- Airhead
- Doofus
- Weightlifter's apparatus
- Weight, or lightweight
More clues leading to the result SIMP
More clues leading to the result NERD
- Black-sock wearer in gym, perhaps
- Dork
- Dweeb
- Overly bookish sort
- Pocket-protector wearer, perhaps
- Quirky character
- Geek
- High-school misfit
- High-school outcast
- Pocket-protector wearer
More clues leading to the result NUMSKULL
More clues leading to the result DIMWIT
- Dumbbell
- Blockhead
- Lamebrain
- Nincompoop
- No Einstein, this one
- Numbskull
- Doofus
- Knucklehead
- Not-too-bright sort
- Stupid one
More clues leading to the result DINGALING
- Scatterbrain
- Dumbbell or bell sound
- Dope
- Kook
- Foolish one
- Tinkling sound
- "My _____" (1972 hit)
- Doofus
- Lamebrain
- Knucklehead
More clues leading to the result BONEHEAD
- Dunce
- Unthinking
- Doofus
- Top orthopedist?
- Unthinking, as a mistake
- Kind of play: Slang.
- Chump.
- Numbskull
- Nitwit
More clues leading to the result DORK
More clues leading to the result NOODLEHEAD
More clues leading to the result TWERP
More clues leading to the result BIRDBRAIN
More clues leading to the result DDDDD
- "Allahu ___!"
- "Barry Lyndon" actor
- "Casablanca" actor
- "Deathwatch" playwright
- "Fried Green Tomatoes" actress
- "Funny or Die" post
- "Go Tell It on the Mountain," e.g.
- "Hard to believe, but..."
- "I challenge you to ___!"
- "I didn't ___ be part of this"
More clues leading to the result KLUTZ
- He'll take an unexpected trip
- One who's all thumbs
- Doofus
- One with two left feet
- Stumblebum
- One who takes a lot of trips?
- Butterfingers
- Bull in a china shop
- Clumsy sort
- Clumsy person