Plunge
The crossword clue "Plunge" is answered by DROP, a 4-letter entry. Used 16 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DROP
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DROP answer page.
Used 16 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
Other clues for DROP
Every other clue in this collection answered by DROP, most used first.
- Let fall - used 72 times, most recently in 2026
- Plummet - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
- Bit of rain - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Let go of - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Discontinue - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
- Fall - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
- Globule - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Go down - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Let go - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Lozenge - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
- Lemon candy - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
- Bit of water - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Deliver by parachute - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Piece of candy. - used 8 times, most recently in 1968
- Tiny bit of rain - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Withdraw from, as a class - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Decrease - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Egg ___ soup - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Release - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Release, as an album - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Stop discussing - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Tiny bit of water - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Minute quantity - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Rain unit - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Ransom payoff - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Small amount - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Takes the plunge - WEDS, used 27 times
- Plunge - DIVE, used 19 times
- Headfirst plunge - DIVE, used 15 times
- Plunge into a pool - DIVE, used 12 times
- Take the plunge - DARE, used 10 times
- Plunge - FALL, used 8 times
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