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 |
| DUMBBELL | 1 % | 8 |
| PUMPKINHEAD | 1 % | 11 |
| SIMP | 1 % | 4 |
| NERD | 1 % | 4 |
| NUMSKULL | 1 % | 8 |
| DINGALING | 1 % | 9 |
| DIMWIT | 1 % | 6 |
| NOODLEHEAD | 1 % | 10 |
| BONEHEAD | 1 % | 8 |
| DORK | 1 % | 4 |
| TWERP | 1 % | 5 |
| BIRDBRAIN | 1 % | 9 |
| GOOBER | 1 % | 6 |
| DDDDD | 1 % | 5 |
| KLUTZ | 1 % | 5 |
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 DUMBBELL
- Free weight
- Ignoramus
- Aerobic exercise prop
- Airhead
- Doofus
- Weightlifter's apparatus
- Weight, or lightweight
More clues leading to the result PUMPKINHEAD
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 DINGALING
- Scatterbrain
- Dumbbell or bell sound
- Dope
- Kook
- Foolish one
- Tinkling sound
- "My _____" (1972 hit)
- Doofus
- Lamebrain
- Knucklehead
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 NOODLEHEAD
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 TWERP
More clues leading to the result BIRDBRAIN
More clues leading to the result GOOBER
- Regional pea
- Southern peanut
- Peanut, in the South
- Dixie peanut
- Peanut
- Jimmy Carter tidbit
- Carver snack
- Peanut, to Carter
- Peanut, in Dixie
- "The ___ State": Georgia nickname
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"