The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word FLOP which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2022.
Total failure crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| FLOP | 23 % | 4 |
| FIASCO | 18 % | 6 |
| WASHOUT | 18 % | 7 |
| DUD | 14 % | 3 |
| BUST | 14 % | 4 |
| BOMB | 9 % | 4 |
| DISASTER | 5 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Total failure
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- collapse
- implosion
- meltdown
- melt down
- implosions
- collapses
- imploded
- imploding
- catastrophe
- disintegration
- collapsing
- crisis
Crossword Answer definitions
FLOP noun- An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.
- A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
- The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
- A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
- A flophouse.
- To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
- To cause to drop heavily.
- To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
- To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
- To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap.
- To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
- To stay, sleep or live in a place.
- Right, squarely, flat-out.
- With a flopping sound.
- Any simple operation, such as addition, multiplication or division, performed on floating point numbers using a single operation.
- One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
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 FLOP
- Broadway bomb
- Turkey
- Big money loser
- Expensive bomb
- Max Bialystock's hope
- Bomb of a show
- Foul play?
- Do poorly at the theater
- Broadway failure
- Turkey on the stage
More clues leading to the result FIASCO
- Big mess
- SNAFU
- Utter failure
- Lead balloon
- Big flop
- Spectacular failure
- Unmitigated disaster
- Huge flop
- Debacle
- Complete catastrophe
More clues leading to the result WASHOUT
- Total failure
- Utter failure
- Failure: Slang.
- Result of a flood.
- Socially colorless one: Slang.
- Failure
- Absolute flop
- Complete failure
- Road erosion after a rain, e.g.
More clues leading to the result DUD
- Flop
- Total failure
- Bomb of a bomb
- Fiasco
- Washout
- Bummer
- Independence Day no-show?
- Spectacular failure
- Total misfire
- Turkey
More clues leading to the result BUST
- Failure
- Sculptor's creation
- Sculpture
- It's put on a pedestal
- First-round draft pick that goes nowhere
- Hourglass part?
- Police raid
- Utter failure
- Marble head?
- Sculptor's portrait
More clues leading to the result BOMB
- Box office flop
- Die, on stage
- Fail at the box office
- Fail big-time
- Turkey
- Broadway turkey
- Explosive
- Broadway flop
- Utter flop
- Filmdom flop