Heart rate

The answer

PULSE

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PULSE answer page.

Used 12 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2016. 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

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• RESTING (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for PULSE

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

• Sign of life - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
• Throb - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• Heartbeat - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Vital sign - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
• Beat - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
• One of the vital signs - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
• A vital sign - used 11 times, most recently in 2016
• Heart throb - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Heart's beat - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Heartbeat indicator - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Living proof? - used 6 times, most recently in 2018

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.

• Heart chambers - ATRIA, used 155 times
• It comes from the heart - AORTA, used 108 times
• Heart line - AORTA, used 72 times
• Places in the heart - ATRIA, used 63 times
• Heart, for one - ORGAN, used 35 times
• Heart outlet - AORTA, used 26 times

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