Engine sound
The crossword clue "Engine sound" is answered by ROAR, a 4-letter entry. Used 25 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1985. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
ROAR
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ROAR answer page.
Used 25 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1985. It appears in 11 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.
- VROOM (13 uses in xd)
Other clues for ROAR
Every other clue in this collection answered by ROAR, most used first.
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- Crowd sound - used 92 times, most recently in 2026
- Lion's sound - used 85 times, most recently in 2026
- Surf sound - used 64 times, most recently in 2025
- Laugh loudly - used 63 times, most recently in 2025
- Stadium sound - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
- Lion sound - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
- Laugh heartily - used 38 times, most recently in 2024
- Crowd noise - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Lion's warning - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Lion's cry - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Jungle sound - used 23 times, most recently in 2017
- Big laugh - used 22 times, most recently in 2022
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