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Definition: Crackle |
CrackleAdjective1. Having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware; "a crackle glaze". Noun1. The sharp sound of snapping noises. 2. Glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface. Verb1. Make a crackling sound; "My Rice Crispies crackled in the bowl". 2. Make crunching noises; "his shoes were crunching on the gravel". 3. To become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks; "The blazing sun crackled the desert sand". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crackle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1677. (references) |
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Electrical Engineering | A spurious noise perceived as a series of crackling sounds when reproducing a disk. Source: European Union. (references) |
Physics | An irregular rough noise radiated by high powered jets. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: CrackleSynonyms: crackle china (n), crackleware (n), crackling (n), crepitation (n), crepitate (v), crunch (v), scranch (v), scraunch (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Crackle |
| English words defined with "crackle": Brustle ♦ decrepitate, Deflagrable, Deflagrate. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "crackle": Spark. (references) |
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Tongue Twisters | Crisp crusts crackle crunchily. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Crackle Box (1997) | |
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 | Crackle; flame; warmth; fire pit; fireplace. | | Crackle; crepitate; crinkle; hum; murmur; patter; sigh; stir; swish; tap; whir; whish; whoosh. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Ma shoved willow sticks in the fire and made it crackle up about the black pot. |
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| "Crackle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.98% of the time. "Crackle" is used about 107 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 85.98% | 92 | 34,282 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 9.35% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.67% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 107 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "crackle": crackle china. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "crackle": crackle-glaze, crackle-glazing, crackle-prone. | |
Ending with "crackle": knee-crackle, snap-crackle. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "crackle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | cërcëritje (frizzle), kërcitje (clack, clash, click, clicking, crack, crackling, crash, creak, crepitation, crunch, Gride, grinding, groan, pop, pound, rap, rattle, scratch, screech, snap, splutter, squeak), kërcas (clash, click, crack, creak, crepitate, crunch, Gride, grit one's teeth, jar, scratch, scroop, snap, squeak). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فرقعة (bang, crack, crackling, crepitation, exploding, explosion, pop, report, snap), فرقع (crack, crepitate, explode, pop, pop up, snap, sputter, squib, torpedo), تشقق (chap, cleave, rend, rift, seam, splinter), طقطقة (clack, click, crackling, patter, pinking, plink, rap, slap, sputter), طقطق (click, crack, patter, pitter patter, sputter, squeak), إحتدام (glow), آنية خزفية (chinaware, earthenware), شخسخ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | хрущя (crunch), напукване, напуквам, пуквам (break, crack, explode, flaw, kick in, peg out, pop, pop off, snuff out, spring), пукане (cracking, crackling, phut, pop), пукам (crepitate, pop), пръщене (crackling, crepitation, sizzle), пращя (burst, crepitate, spit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 裂紋 (flaw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | praskot (crack, cracking, crackling, crash), praskat (break up, creak), praskání (crackling, creak), louskat (crack, shell), šustit (rustle), šustìní (crackling, rustle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | skratten (buzz, fizzing, screeching, sizzle, sizzling, spitting, sputtering), knitren (crepitation), knasen (contact noise, fizzing, frying, frying noise, sizzle, sizzling, spitting, sputtering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | knetteren (bruit de craquement, creaking sound), knapperen, kletteren (clap, clatter, click, jingle, rattle, tinkle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | kraketi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | صدای ترق وتروق , صدای انفجارپی درپی , صدای انفجاروشکستگی تولیدکردن , شکستن (Break, Chop, Cleave, Disobey, Fraction, Fracture, Infract, Infraction, Nick, Refract, Shatter, Smite, Stave, Violate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rätinä (crackling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | craquer (crack, creak), craquement (crack, creak), craquelure (crack, crazing, hair cracks, small crack), crachoter, crépiter, crépitement (crackling), claquer (crack), claquement (crackling), se craqueler (crack), pétiller, pétillement, grésiller, grésillement (crackling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | prasseln (clatter, crepitate, drum, hail down, patter, rattle, rattling, roar, to crackle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κροτάλισμα (rattat, rattle), τρίξιμο (crackling, creak, creakiness, grinding, groan, squeak). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"שמיע קול פצוח. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ropogás (blatter, crack, rustling), repedezés (fire-crack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | berdentur (pop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | crepitio (crackling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | frapperaght (cracking, crackling, crepitate, popping), frappal (crack, crack of noise, crepitate, ring out, smack, to go pop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | sprake, knitre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | acklecray crepitação (crepitation, fizz). (various references) crãnţãi (crunch), trosni (clack, crack, decrepitate, grit, snap), sfãrâma (batter, burst, crack, crunch, destroy, disrupt, fritter, granulate, grind, knap, mill, ruin, shatter, shiver, smash, split), pocni (bash, clack, click, crack, hit), pârâi (click, grit). (various references) хруст (crepitation, crunch), трещать (blether, crack, rattle), потрескивание. (various references) pucketati, pucketanje (crackling, sputter), škripati (bleep, creak, grate, gride, grit, rasp, scrape, screak, scroop, squeak), škripa (creak, creaking, grate, gride, jar, scroop, squeak). (various references) crepitación (crepitation, roar). (various references) spraka (crepitate, sparkle). (various references) çatlak gibi görünen desen, çatlak desenli çini kap, çatlak desen ile süslemek, çatırtı (clack, crack, crackling noise, crash, crunch, scrunch, smash), çatırdatmak (crack, scrunch), çatırdamak (chatter, clack, clash, crack, creak, crepitate, make a crackling noise, scrunch, snap), çıtırtı (click, crunch, scrunch, splutter, sputter), çıtırdamak (crunch, scrunch, spit, splutter). (various references) юyrkyldy (snap), юyrkyldamak (crack, snap), юatyrdamak (chirp), юartyldamak. (various references) хрустіти (crepitate, crisp, crunch, scrunch), хруст (crepitation), тріск (clabber, crack, crash, crunch, knack, phut, pop, rattle, zip), тріщати (clabber, crack), потріскувати (crepitate), потріскування (crackling, crepitation). (various references) crecian (cluck), clindarddach (crackling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crackle": crackled, crackles, crackleware, cracklewares. (additional references) | |
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"Crackle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: brockle, crackel, cracken, cracle, Crankley, Creakle, crickl, crickle, Crocelle, Cruchley, rackle, reckle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crackle" (pronounced kra"kul) |
| 5 | -r a" k u l | grackle. |
| 4 | -a" k u l | cackle, hackle, jackal, shackle, tackle, unshackle. |
| 3 | -k u l | acoustical, aeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, alphabetical, analytical, anarchical, anatomical, ankle, anthropological, antithetical, apolitical, archaeological, archeological, article, astrological, astronautical, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, barnacle, biblical, bicycle, bifocal, biochemical, biographical, biological, biomedical, biotechnological, botanical, brickle, buckle, categorical, cervical, chemical, Chronicle, chronological, chuckle, circle, classical, clavicle, clerical, clinical, comical, commonsensical, conical, coracle, cortical, critical, cubicle, cuticle, cycle, cyclical, cylindrical, cynical, debacle, dermatological, diabolical, diacritical, dialectical, domical, ducal, ecclesiastical, ecological, economical, ecumenical, egotistical, electrical, electrochemical, electromechanical, elliptical, empirical, encircle, encyclical, epidemiological, epochal, equivocal, eschatological, ethical, ethnical, etymological, evangelical, fanatical, farcical, fecal, fickle, fiscal, focal, follicle, freckle, galenical, geographical, geological, geometrical, geophysical, geopolitical, gonococcal, grammatical, granduncle, graphical, gynecological, heckle, helical, heretical, heterocercal, hierarchical, historical, honeysuckle, Huckle, hypercritical, hypocritical, hypothetical, hysterical, icicle, identical, ideological, illogical, immunological, impractical, inimical, ironical, knuckle, lackadaisical, lexical, liturgical, local, logical, logistical, lyrical, magical, maniacal, mathematical, matriarchal, mechanical, medical, meikle, metallurgical, metaphorical, metaphysical, meteorological, methodical, methodological, metrical, Mickle, miracle, monocle, morphological, motorcycle, muckle, musical, mystical, mythical, mythological, nautical, neoclassical, neurological, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, nonelectrical, nonpolitical, nonsensical, nonsurgical, nontechnical, numerical, obstacle, ontological, optical, Oracle, oratorical, ornithological, paradoxical, particle, pathological, patriarchal, pedagogical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, pharmacological, philosophical, phonological, photochemical, physical, physiological, pickle, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, popsicle, practical, preclinical, problematical, prototypical, psychical, psychological, pumpernickel, puritanical, quizzical, rabbinical, radical, radiological, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, receptacle, reciprocal, recycle, rhetorical, ruckle, runkle, sabbatical, satirical, semiclassical, semicylindrical, semitropical, serological, shekel, sickle, skeptical, sociological, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spectacle, spherical, sprinkle, statistical, stereotypical, stickle, strategical, suckle, surgical, symmetrical, tabernacle, tactical, technical, technological, teleological, tentacle, testicle, theatrical, theological, theoretical, tickle, tinkle, topical, toxicological, trickle, tricycle, tropical, twinkle, typical, typographical, tyrannical, umbilical, uncle, uncritical, uneconomical, unequivocal, unethical, unicycle, untypical, vehicle, vertical, viatical, virological, vocal, whimsical, Winkle, wrinkle, zoological. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cackler, clacker. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-k-l-r" | |
-1 letter: cackle, calker, carcel, lacker, rackle. | |
-2 letters: carle, cecal, clack, clear, clerk, crack, crake, creak, lacer, laker. | |
-3 letters: acre, alec, cake, calk, care, cark, carl, ceca, earl, kale, lace, lack, lake, lark, leak, lear, race, rack, rake, rale, real, reck. | |
-4 letters: ace, ale, arc, are, ark, car, cel, ear, elk, era, kae, kea, lac, lar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-k-l-r" | |
+1 letter: cacklers, clackers, crackled, crackles, cracknel. | |
+2 letters: cracklier, cracknels. | |
+3 letters: crackliest. | |
+4 letters: crackleware, placekicker. | |
+5 letters: cracklewares, placekickers, shellcracker. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Sounds 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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