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crackly

adjective

crackly is spelled C-R-A-C-K-L-Y: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, crackly means “Involving or producing a crackle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in crackly?

Letters7: C-R-A-C-K-L-Y
In writingabout once in every 16 million words; the 119,826th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is crackly?

Crackly appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of crackly

  • cracklier comparative
  • crackliest superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does crackly mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Involving or producing a crackle.

    the crackly sound of a fire

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does crackly come from?

From crackle + -y.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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