crumbly
"crumbly" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“crumbly” is uncommon English (frequency #57,313 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,313
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Easy to break into small fragments; brittle or friable.
Corpus desk
Index EN-crumbly · crumbly · English
crumbly · rank #57,313 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,313
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH creosote
Nearest frequency peer: creosote (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “crumbly”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- coster
coster
42,692 corpus weight
- creosote
creosote
42,689 corpus weight
- crumbly
crumbly
42,688 corpus weight
- cultists
cultists
42,686 corpus weight
- curio
curio
42,685 corpus weight
- cushioning
cushioning
42,684 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “crumbly” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crumbly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,313 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “crumbly” in English
Rare enough to double-check
crumbly is uncommon English at frequency #57,313 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Easy to break into small fragments; brittle or friable.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for crumbly, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From crumble + -y. The correct English form is crumbly, spelled C-R-U-M-B-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Easy to break into small fragments; brittle or friable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how crumbly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonym: crumby
Etymology
From crumble + -y.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).