Sputtering sound
The crossword clue "Sputtering sound" is answered by PFFT, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 2007. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PFFT
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PFFT answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 2007. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for PFFT
Every other clue in this collection answered by PFFT, most used first.
- Fizzling sound - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Fizzling-out sound - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- "As if!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Dismissive sound - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- "Yeah, right!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Canyon sound - ECHO, used 202 times
- Throat-clearing sound - AHEM, used 180 times
- Scissors sound - SNIP, used 135 times
- High-five sound - SLAP, used 132 times
- Horn sound - TOOT, used 132 times
- Attention-getting sound - PSST, used 120 times
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