The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word FAIL , but the solution may also be OWE which is one of the most recent solution (2021 in New York Times).
Fall short crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| FAIL | 81 % | 4 |
| OWE | 4 % | 3 |
| LOSE | 4 % | 4 |
| WANT | 4 % | 4 |
| NOTMAKETHEGRADE | 4 % | 15 |
| MISSTHEMARK | 4 % | 11 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Fall short
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- come short
- miss the mark
- fall by the wayside
- fall foul
- lower one's sights
- fall at the last hurdle
- fall behind
- fall flat on one's face
- miss one's tip
- fall on one's face
- bottom fall out
- slip up
Crossword Answer definitions
FAIL noun- Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
- A failure (condition of being unsuccessful)
- A failure (something incapable of success)
- A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
- A failing grade in an academic examination.
- To be unsuccessful.
- Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
- To neglect.
- Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
- To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.
- To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
- To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
- To miss attaining; to lose.
- To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
- To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
- To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
- To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
- To perish; to die; used of a person.
- To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
- To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
- That is a failure.
- A piece of turf cut from grassland.
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 FAIL
- Go down the tubes
- Go pfft!
- Opposite of ace
- Go downhill
- Flunk
- Go belly-up
- Epic ___
- Go pfft big time
- Fall short
- Disappoint
More clues leading to the result OWE
- Be in the red
- Be indebted
- Be indebted to
- Create interest?
- Have a red-number day?
- Part of IOU
- See red?
- Writer of 25D
- Be beholden to
- Be in for
More clues leading to the result LOSE
- Get trounced
- Mislay
- Place or show
- Take it on the chin
- Come in second
- Finish last
- Finish second
- Give the slip to
- Misplace
- Come in last
More clues leading to the result WANT
- Fancy
- Thirst for
- Word on an Uncle Sam poster
- Entry on a wish list
- Have a hankering
- Have one's heart set on
- Hanker for
- Verb in a letter to Santa
- Needy condition
- Be deficient in