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Synonyms for fuckup

  • noun

Most common

screw-up blunder bungle botch butcher bungler

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

1. Blunder — A serious mistake

screw-up, blunder, flub US AU NZ, botch, bungle, boo-boo informal, blooper, pratfall, goof, fluff, howler, solecism, boner slang dated, bloomer dated

2. Sad sack

sad sack US, butcher, bungler, bumbler, blunderer, stumbler, botcher

Other

fuck boy vulgar slang

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A serious mistake.

    Forgetting our anniversary was a major fuckup.

  2. n. 2

    One who continually makes mistakes; a person who fucks up a lot.

    You've got to fire that fuckup.

Related words

Word family
fuckuppery

Forms

Plural
fuckups → screw-ups, blunders, flubs, botches…

Example sentences

  • blunder Don't worry about your blunder: it wasn't serious.
  • bungle The company will never recover after that last bungle.
  • botch Tom and Mary hope that they don't botch the job.
  • butcher I have to go to the butcher shop to buy some meat.
  • bungler For a bungler like me, I think I really did my best.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
fuckupsteady
blundersteady
bunglesteady
botchrising
butcherrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
goof1, flub
5 letters
fluff1, boner2, botch1
6 letters
howler2, bungle2
7 letters
butcher2, blunder2, bloomer2, blooper2, bungler2, bumbler, botcher
8 letters
pratfall2, solecism, stumbler
9 letters
blunderer

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (boner2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
boulet
Italiano
palla al piede