The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word BEATS which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 1962.
Units of rhythm crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| BEATS | 100 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Units of rhythm
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- beats
- beat
- mark
- measure
- meter
- metre
- number
- numbering
- numbing
- period
- foot
- count
Crossword Answer definitions
BEATS noun- A stroke; a blow.
- A pulsation or throb.
- A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- A rhythm.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect; a plot point or story development.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially
- An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
- That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
- A precinct.
- A place of habitual or frequent resort.
- A low cheat or swindler.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- To hit; strike
- To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.
- To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- (In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price
- To indicate by beating or drumming.
- To tread, as a path.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
- To arrive at a place before someone.
- To have sexual intercourse.
- To rob.
- A beatnik.
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