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Definition: Crinkly |
CrinklyAdjective1. Having wrinkles or waves. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crinkly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references) |
Synonyms: CrinklySynonyms: crinkled (adj), rippled (adj), wavelike (adj), wavy (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: Crinkly leaf (food & agriculture, medicine). |
Crosswords: Crinkly |
| English words defined with "crinkly": Laver ♦ savoy, savoy cabbage, sea lettuce. (references) |
| "Crinkly" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Crinkly" is used about 51 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 51 | 47,619 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "crinkly": go crinkly. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "crinkly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zmaèkaný (creased, crumpled, crushed, wrinkled), vrásèitý (liny, wrinkled), kudrnatý (curly, frizzly, frizzy, fuzzy), kuèeravý (curly, fuzzy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zerknittert (creased, crumpled, crumples, remorseful, rumples, washed out, wrinkled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κατσαρόσ (curly, frizzy), σγουρόσ (crimpy, crisp, crispy, frizzly, frizzy), πτυχωτόσ, ζαρωμένοσ με πτυχάσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | redős (frilled, puckered, puckery), gyűrött (creased, crinkled, crumpled, rumpled), gyűrődött, göndör (crisp, crispy, curly, frizzed, frizzy, fuzzy, kinky, ringleted, ringlety), fodros (dimply, fleecy, fluted, frilly, lumpy, ripply, ruffled, wavy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | roagagh (lined), craplagh (wrinkled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | inklycray морщинистый (creasy, furrowed, lined, liny, rugose, rugous, wizened, wrinkly), измятый (wrinkled). (various references) veckig (crimpy, wrinkled, wrinkly), skrynklig (creased, creasy, rumpled, tattered), krusig (crisp, curly, frizzly, frizzy, ringleted, ringlety). (various references) kıvrımlı (corrugated, curled, curly, meandering, plaited, serpentine, sinuous, tortuous, twisted, voluted), kırışık (corrugation, crease, Crinkle, crisp, crispy, furrow, liny, pucker, ruck, seam, wrinkle, wrinkled, wrinkly), buruşuk (crease, creased, crumpled, lined, liny, pursy, ruck, rugose, wrinkled, wrinkly). (various references) uốn khúc (flexuous, meanderingly, meandrine, serpentine, winding), nhăn (creasy, wrinkled), nh u quanh co. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Crinkly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chinkuli, Crankley, Cringely, Crinkley, Krankl. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "crinkly" (pronounced 'Crin"kly'): Fickly, Freckly, Wrinkly. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-k-l-n-r-y" | |
-2 letters: clink, linky, lyric. | |
-3 letters: icky, inky, inly, kiln, kirn, lick, link, liny, nick, rick, rink. | |
-4 letters: cry, ick, icy, ilk, ink, irk, kin, kir, lin, nil, rin, yin. | |
-5 letters: in, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-k-l-n-r-y" | |
+1 letter: crankily. | |
+2 letters: rackingly. | |
+4 letters: brainsickly, bricklaying, tracklaying. | |
+5 letters: bricklayings, flickeringly, tracklayings. | |
| 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. | |
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