Metallic sound

The answer

PING

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

Used 13 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1957. It appears in 5 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.

• CLANK (20 uses in xd)
• CLANG (13 uses in xd)
• TING (9 uses in xd)
• TINKLE (2 uses in xd)
• CLINK (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for PING

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

• Sonar sound - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• ___-Pong - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Engine sound - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Engine knock - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
• Worrisome engine sound - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Sharp sound. - used 7 times, most recently in 2005
• Unwanted engine sound - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Engine noise - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
• Ricocheting bullet sound - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• "Turandot" role - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
• Unwelcome engine sound - used 6 times, most recently in 2020

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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