Fall heavily
The crossword clue "Fall heavily" is answered by PLOP, a 4-letter entry. Used 14 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1975. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PLOP
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PLOP answer page.
Used 14 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1975. It appears in 8 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.
- FLUMP (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for PLOP
Every other clue in this collection answered by PLOP, most used first.
- Raindrop sound - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
- Alka-Seltzer sound - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Fall into a chair - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Drop heavily - used 19 times, most recently in 2015
- Sit down heavily - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Coin-in-a-fountain sound - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Sit (down) - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Make a splash - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Kerplunk - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Sit heavily - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
- Sound of a flat dive. - used 8 times, most recently in 1967
- Dripping sound - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Dropping-into-water sound - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Fall into a beanbag chair - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Fall into a soft chair - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Penny-in-the-wishing-well sound - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Plunk down - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Sound of a raindrop - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Tumultuous sit-down - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
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.
- Walked heavily - TROD, used 97 times
- Walk heavily - PLOD, used 92 times
- Breathe heavily - PANT, used 76 times
- Fall birthstone - OPAL, used 76 times
- Let fall - DROP, used 72 times
- Winter fall - SNOW, used 46 times
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