The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ERROR , but the solution may also be GOINGPFFT which is one of the most recent solution (2009 in Newsday).
Failing crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ERROR | 25 % | 5 |
| LAPSE | 25 % | 5 |
| GOINGPFFT | 13 % | 9 |
| SIN | 13 % | 3 |
| SENILE | 13 % | 6 |
| VICE | 13 % | 4 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Failing
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- weakness
- unsatisfactory
- unsuccessful
- deteriorating
- declining
- retrograde
- regressing
- retrogressive
- regressive
- fault
- shortage
- shortcoming
Crossword Answer definitions
ERROR noun- The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
- A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
- Sin; transgression.
- A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
- The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
- A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
- One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
- Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
- To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.
- To show or contain an error or fault.
- To err.
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 ERROR
- Box-score bobble
- Misstep
- Mistake
- Partner of trial
- "E" in the box score
- Baseballer's nightmare
- Dropped fly, e.g.
- Faux pas
- Programming bug, perhaps
- Slip-up
More clues leading to the result LAPSE
- Breach
- Run out
- Expire
- Spiritual fall
- Spell of forgetfulness
- Gap, as in time
- Fall back
- Slip
- Moment of blanking out
- Pass by
More clues leading to the result GOINGPFFT
More clues leading to the result SIN
- Do wrong
- Kind of tax
- Lust, for one
- Break a Commandment
- Deplorable act
- Moral transgression
- Offense
- Transgression
- Fall afoul of the good book (and the end of a split order of plum sauce)
- Means to excommunication
More clues leading to the result SENILE
- Red or Dead
- Dotty
- Doddering
- In one's dotage
- Lacking reason
- Showing old age
- Not thinking well
- Declining, in a way
- In one's second childhood
- Showing sign of decline