Answer to "Sudden fall" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word PLUNGE which also is the latest solution we found used in Newsday in 2011.

Sudden fall crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
PLUNGE	33 %	6
TAILSPIN	33 %	8
HEADER	33 %	6

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Sudden fall

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• drop
• plunge
• tailspin
• downfall
• squash
• plumping
• precipice
• squashing
• thump
• squat
• comedown
• nose dive

Crossword Answer definitions

PLUNGE noun

1. The act of plunging or submerging
2. A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water)
3. A swimming pool
4. The act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse
5. Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation
6. An immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty

PLUNGE verb

1. To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse.
2. To cast, stab or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.
3. To baptize by immersion.
4. To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
5. To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
6. To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
7. To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling.
8. To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).
9. To overwhelm, overpower.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result PLUNGE

• Daredevil's drop
• Thrust
• Dive
• Go off the deep end
• Dramatic dive
• Drop precipitously
• Fall rapidly
• Drastic drop
• Dramatic drop
• Drop

More clues leading to the result TAILSPIN

• Precipitous downturn
• Dramatic downturn
• Dizzying dive
• Pilot's problem
• Critical downturn
• Sudden and precipitous downturn
• Dramatic decline
• Sudden decline
• Sudden collapse
• Spiraling air maneuver.

More clues leading to the result HEADER

• Lintel
• Ungraceful dive
• Off-the-noggin soccer shot
• Soccer shot
• Exhaust manifold
• Tumble
• Hamm shot
• Lines at the top
• Shot from the top?
• Aptly named soccer shot