"... one giant ___ for mankind"

The answer

LEAP

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LEAP answer page.

Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1971. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for LEAP

Every other clue in this collection answered by LEAP, most used first.

• Jump - used 147 times, most recently in 2026
• Spring - used 138 times, most recently in 2026
• Bound - used 114 times, most recently in 2026
• Vault - used 99 times, most recently in 2026
• Big jump - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
• Act of faith? - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• "Look before you ___" - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ of faith - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Clear a hurdle - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Sudden transition - used 27 times, most recently in 2022
• Abrupt transition - used 26 times, most recently in 2022
• Ballet move - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Get off the ground - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Kind of year - used 14 times, most recently in 2017
• Hurdle - used 13 times, most recently in 2020
• Jete, for one - used 12 times, most recently in 2007
• Sudden increase - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• "Able to ___ tall buildings ... " - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• ___ year - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• High jump - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Quantum ___ - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Look before you do this - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Axel or Lutz - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Bissextile year - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
• Bound upward - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Long jump - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• ___ Day (February 29) - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Do a grand jete - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Get some air - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Jump over - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Mimic a kangaroo - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Word with "frog" or "year" - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• Word with Lambeau or quantum - used 6 times, most recently in 2012

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.

• For fear that - LEST, used 503 times
• Change for a five - ONES, used 272 times
• "What's ___ for me?" - INIT, used 264 times
• One of the Great Lakes - ERIE, used 258 times
• Shrek, for one - OGRE, used 244 times
• Ready for business - OPEN, used 184 times

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