The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word LOUT , but the solution may also be BOOR which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in LA Times).
Oaf crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| LOUT | 35 % | 4 |
| CLOD | 18 % | 4 |
| DOLT | 11 % | 4 |
| LUG | 6 % | 3 |
| APE | 6 % | 3 |
| BOZO | 3 % | 4 |
| BOOR | 3 % | 4 |
| LUMMOX | 3 % | 6 |
| BIGAPE | 3 % | 6 |
| GALOOT | 2 % | 6 |
| PALOOKA | 2 % | 7 |
| DORK | 1 % | 4 |
| NERD | 1 % | 4 |
| OUTLAY | 1 % | 6 |
| SHMO | 1 % | 4 |
| BIGOX | 1 % | 5 |
| ASS | 1 % | 3 |
| BLUNDERBUSS | 1 % | 11 |
| XXXXXXXX | 1 % | 8 |
| SADSACK | 1 % | 7 |
| IDIOT | 1 % | 5 |
| FUMBLER | 1 % | 7 |
| SHLEMIEL | 1 % | 8 |
Why may LOUT be the right solution?
The answer "LOUT" is the right solution because it is a term used to describe a clumsy, uncouth, or foolish person, which matches the definition of an "oaf."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Oaf
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- lout
- lummox
- stumblebum
- goon
- clod
- klutz
- lubber
- lump
- gawk
- buffoon
- dolt
- nincompoop
Crossword Answer definitions
LOUT noun- A troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob.
- A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin.
- To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint.
- To bend, bow, stoop.
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 LOUT
- Oafish one
- A large, ungainly person
- Crude one
- Boor
- Lazy sort
- Oaf
- Knuckle-dragger
- Scoundrel
- Klutz
- Awkward brute
More clues leading to the result CLOD
More clues leading to the result DOLT
More clues leading to the result LUG
- Automobile nut?
- Haul
- Tote
- Type of nut
- "Ahhh, c'mere, you big ___!"
- Schlep
- Big galoot
- Clumsy fellow
- Drag with effort
- Move by pulling
More clues leading to the result APE
- "Going __!" (Danza bomb)
- Act like
- Brutish one
- Copy
- Lummox
- Make like
- O'Neill's "The Hairy __"
- O'Neill's hairy title character
- Rue Morgue culprit
- Aldous Huxley's "__ and Essence"
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 BOOR
- Crude fellow
- Crude person
- Uncouth one
- Rude person
- Rude one
- Dinner party persona non grata
- Fool
- Real pig
- Yokel
- Rude dude
More clues leading to the result LUMMOX
More clues leading to the result BIGAPE
More clues leading to the result GALOOT
More clues leading to the result PALOOKA
- Boxer Joe of the comics
- Oaf
- Cartoon boxer Joe
- Big oaf
- Lummox
- Two-bit boxer
- Fictional boxer Joe
- Boxer, slangily
- Boxer of the comics
- Unskilled pug
More clues leading to the result DORK
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 OUTLAY
More clues leading to the result SHMO
- Yiddish jerk (var.)
- Nudnik
- Doofus (var.)
- Loser
- Bumbling sort
- Oaf
- Dullard
- Foolish person
- Nerd: Var.
- Jerk: Var.
More clues leading to the result BIGOX
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 BLUNDERBUSS
- Musket with a flared muzzle
- Gun with a flaring muzzle
- Pilgrims' weapon
- Oaf
- Pilgrim's weapon
- Awkward one
- Muzzle-loading firearm
- 18th century weapon
More clues leading to the result XXXXXXXX
- Big wheel's wheels
- Company that pioneered walkie-talkies
- Frenzied as if possessed
- Hefty thing
- Oaf
- Where a mattress goes
More clues leading to the result SADSACK
- Inept sort
- Comics soldier, with "The"
- Army cartoon character
- Woefully inept person
- Hapless WWII cartoon GI
- Debbie Downer
- Bumbler
- Hapless sort
- Bungler
- Inept GI
More clues leading to the result IDIOT
- Dostoyevsky's "The __"
- Dunderhead
- __ savant
- __-proof (easy to operate)
- Bonehead
- Lamebrain
- Mooncalf
- Nincompoop
- Doofus
- Shit-for-brains