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crusting

/ˈkɹʌstɪŋ/noun, verb

crusting is spelled C-R-U-S-T-I-N-G: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, crusting means “Encrusted material” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of crusting is crustings.

How many letters and syllables are in crusting?

Letters8: C-R-U-S-T-I-N-G
In writingabout once in every 21 million words; the 139,999th 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 crusting?

Crusting appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th 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).

How do you pronounce crusting?

  • /ˈkɹʌstɪŋ/

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

Forms of crusting

  • crustings plural

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

What does crusting mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Encrusted material.

    the crustings on a barrel

verb

  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of crust (a form of crust)

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

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