go pit-a-pat vs thud

go pit-a-pat

thud

verb

  • To make the sound of a dull impact. 

noun

  • The sound of a dull impact. 

  • A slower, dull impact with a wide surface area. 

  • A hard, dull impact. 

How often have the words go pit-a-pat and thud occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )