Improvise vocally

The answer

SCAT

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

Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SCAT

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

• "Shoo!" - used 183 times, most recently in 2026
• "Beat it!" - used 128 times, most recently in 2026
• "Get lost!" - used 116 times, most recently in 2026
• "Get outta here!" - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
• Begone! - used 61 times, most recently in 2026
• "Vamoose!" - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
• Go away! - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• "Scram!" - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
• Sing like Ella - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Ella's style - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• "Skedaddle!" - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• "Amscray!" - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
• Jazz style - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Ella's forte - used 22 times, most recently in 2022
• Jazz singing style - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Fitzgerald forte - used 19 times, most recently in 2014
• "Git!" - used 19 times, most recently in 2022
• Get going! - used 18 times, most recently in 1999
• "Out!" - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
• Sing like Ella Fitzgerald - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Jazz singing - used 16 times, most recently in 2016
• Fitzgerald's forte - used 14 times, most recently in 2008
• "Get out of here!" - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• "Buzz off!" - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• "Get out!" - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Jazz technique - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Singing style - used 12 times, most recently in 2009
• Emulate Ella - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• Sing nonsense syllables - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Ella Fitzgerald specialty - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Improvisational style - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• "Take a hike!" - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• "Away with you!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• "Flee, feline!" - used 8 times, most recently in 2005
• Improvisational singing style - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Improvised jazz singing - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• "Be off!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Improvise, musically - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Jazzy improv style - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• "Shoo, kitty!" - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Ella's specialty - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• "Get lost, kitty!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Improvise like Ella Fitzgerald - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Leave in a hurry - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Word to a pest - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Wordless singing style - 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.

• Improvise musically - VAMP, used 21 times
• Improvise - VAMP, used 20 times
• Vocally expressed - ORAL, used 20 times
• Improvise, in jazz - VAMP, used 13 times

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