The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word ERR , but the solution may also be SLIP which is one of the most recent solution (2020 in LA Times).
Lapse crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ERR | 29 % | 3 |
| SLIP | 21 % | 4 |
| SIN | 16 % | 3 |
| ERROR | 13 % | 5 |
| ERRATUM | 5 % | 7 |
| RUNOUT | 5 % | 6 |
| OVERSIGHT | 3 % | 9 |
| SLIPOFTHETONGUE | 3 % | 15 |
| EXPIRE | 3 % | 6 |
| DIE | 3 % | 3 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Lapse
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- slip by
- slip away
- elapse
- relapse
- backslide
- recidivism
- recidivate
- go by
- oversight
- fall back
- backsliding
- relapsing
Crossword Answer definitions
ERR verb- To make a mistake.
- To sin.
- To stray.
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 ERR
- Be human
- Be human?
- Be off the mark
- Be sadly mistaken
- Blow it
- Do the wrong thing
- Drop a popup
- Go astray
- Go wrong
- Goof
More clues leading to the result SLIP
- "__ Slidin' Away"
- Lady's undergarment
- Pillowcase
- Fall's prelude
- Lingerie item
- Encounter a banana peel
- Yacht spot
- Take a spill
- Goof
- Cause of a fall
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 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 ERRATUM
- What we try to avoid?
- Proof goof
- Lapse
- Printing mistake
- Mistake
- Addition to a second printing, perhaps
- Galley goof
- Post-printing problem
- Galley glitch
- Goof in print
More clues leading to the result RUNOUT
- Be eggshausted
- Expire
- Expire, as a subscription
- Get used to
- Need renewing
- Need restocking
- Come to an end.
- Expire.
- Exhaust
- Lapse
More clues leading to the result OVERSIGHT
- Instance of carelessness
- Attention to detail, or lack of attention to detail
- Inadvertent omission
- Unconscious neglect.
- Lapse
- Careless mistake
- Careless omission
- Watchful care ... or careless mistake
- Act of omission ... or of a commission
- Inadvertence
More clues leading to the result SLIPOFTHETONGUE
- Verbal boo-boo
- Misstatement
- Spoonerism, e.g.
- Joe Biden statement, typically
- Verbal faux pas
- Lapsus linguae
- Speaker's mistake
- Oral "oops"
- It may be Freudian
- Inadvertent remark
More clues leading to the result EXPIRE
- Run out
- Become extinct
- Die
- Lapse
- Lose validity
- Become invalid
- Lapse, as a license
- End, as a subscription
- Run out, as a subscription
- Become void