Crunching
/ˈkɹʌntʃɪŋ/
verb
- To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
"When I came home, Susan was watching TV with her feet up on the couch, crunching a piece of celery."
- To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
"Beetles crunched beneath the men's heavy boots as they worked."
- To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations). Presumably from the sound made by mechanical calculators.
"That metadata makes it much easier for the search engine to crunch the data for queries."
- To grind or press with violence and noise.
- To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
No exact anagrams found for "crunching". This word has a unique letter combination.
+1 Letter Anagrams
Words formed by adding one letter to "crunching" and rearranging:
Total: 17 Scrabble points
Word Validity & Sources
Dictionary data sourced from SOWPODS (178,691 words), combining TWL (Tournament Word List) and the Collins Scrabble Words dictionary. Definitions from Free Dictionary API and Wordnik.
About the Word "Crunching"
Crunching is a 9-letter word that scores 17 points in Scrabble and 22 points in Words With Friends.
Using "Crunching" in Word Games
When playing Scrabble or Words With Friends, "crunching" is a high-scoring word.