Hit.
The crossword clue "Hit." is answered by SMOTE, a 5-letter entry. Used 16 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2001; first recorded in 1942. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SMOTE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SMOTE answer page.
Used 16 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2001; first recorded in 1942. It appears in 2 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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Other clues for SMOTE
Every other clue in this collection answered by SMOTE, most used first.
- Struck - used 49 times, most recently in 2024
- Struck down - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Struck down, biblically - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Hit hard - used 14 times, most recently in 2017
- Struck, old-style - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Struck down, in the Bible - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Struck hard - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Clobbered - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Walloped - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Walloped, old-style - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Whacked, Bible-style - used 6 times, most recently in 2007
- What David did to Goliath - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
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.
- Big hit - SMASH, used 75 times
- Hit hard - SMITE, used 35 times
- Huge hit - SMASH, used 35 times
- 1972 Bill Withers hit - USEME, used 31 times
- Hit the road - LEAVE, used 30 times
- Ready to hit - ATBAT, used 26 times
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