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crescentic

adjective

crescentic is spelled C-R-E-S-C-E-N-T-I-C: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, crescentic means “Growing, increasing, gaining size, etc” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in crescentic?

Letters10: C-R-E-S-C-E-N-T-I-C
In writingabout once in every 60 million words; the 243,301st 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 crescentic?

Crescentic appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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 crescentic

  • more crescentic comparative
  • most crescentic superlative

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

What does crescentic mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Growing, increasing, gaining size, etc.

  2. 2

    Crescent-shaped.

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

Where does crescentic come from?

From crescent (“(growing) half moon”) + -ic. More at crescent.

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

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