Sudden increase
The crossword clue "Sudden increase" is answered by LEAP, a 4-letter entry. Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2000. 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
LEAP
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LEAP answer page.
Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2000. 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.
- UPSURGE (5 uses in xd)
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
- "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
- "... one giant ___ for mankind" - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- 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.
- Increase - RISE, used 59 times
- Sudden attack - RAID, used 58 times
- "This ___ sudden!" - ISSO, used 55 times
- Sudden shock - JOLT, used 41 times
- Increase - GROW, used 32 times
- Sudden impulse - URGE, used 29 times
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