A cycle of a circle map of
degree one is badly ordered if it cannot be divided into blocks of consecutive points,
such that the blocks are permuted by the map like points of a cycle of a
rational rotation. We find the smallest possible rotation intervals that a map
with a badly ordered cycle of a given rotation number and period can have.
Moreover, we show that if one of those intervals is contained in the interior of the
rotation interval of a map then the map has a corresponding badly ordered
cycle.