Sound of little feet

The answer

PATTER

6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PATTER answer page.

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• PITTERPATTER (4 uses in xd)
• PITAPAT (3 uses in xd)
• PATPAT (1 uses in xd)
• PIATTER (1 uses in xd)
• PITPAT (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for PATTER

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

• Glib talk - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• Glib speech - used 6 times, most recently in 2017

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.

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• Puget Sound city - TACOMA, used 58 times
• Sound investment? - STEREO, used 42 times
• "The Little Mermaid" villain - URSULA, used 28 times
• Little angel - CHERUB, used 26 times

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