thud

1. 1.

   a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)

   Synonymsthumpthumpingclumpclunk

   Broadersound

Other forms of thud

plural

thuds·

past tense or participle

thudded

present participle

thudding

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about thud

What does thud mean?

thud means "make a dull sound". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in thud?

thud has 1 syllable: thud. In IPA it is /ˈθʌd/.

What is another word for thud?

Close synonyms include thump, crump, scrunch, thump, thumping. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is thud a common word?

thud is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.