Beat a path
The crossword clue "Beat a path" is answered by TROD, a 4-letter entry. Used 19 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TROD
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TROD answer page.
Used 19 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TROD
Every other clue in this collection answered by TROD, most used first.
- Walked (on) - used 173 times, most recently in 2026
- Walked - used 98 times, most recently in 2026
- Walked heavily - used 97 times, most recently in 2026
- Stepped (on) - used 91 times, most recently in 2026
- Trampled - used 88 times, most recently in 2024
- Stepped - used 79 times, most recently in 2026
- __ on; trampled - used 41 times, most recently in 2025
- Stepped heavily - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Walked over - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Put one's foot down - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Trampled (on) - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- Walked all over - used 18 times, most recently in 2020
- Set foot (on) - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Took steps - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Stomped (on) - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Walked (upon) - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Crushed underfoot - used 10 times, most recently in 2013
- Did not step lightly - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- Hoofed it - used 8 times, most recently in 2011
- Marched along - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- ___ the boards (acted) - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
- Tramped - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
- Crushed - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
- Stepped heavily (on) - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Tramped or trampled - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Trampled (with "on") - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Trudged - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
- Walked heavily (on) - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- "Beat it!" - SCAT, used 128 times
- "Beat it!" - SHOO, used 69 times
- Path - LANE, used 57 times
- Barely beat - EDGE, used 43 times
- Beat by a whisker - EDGE, used 26 times
- Just beat - EDGE, used 21 times
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