Definitions For Crankle

Verb

crankl To bend, turn, or wind. To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.

Noun

CRANKLE (plural CRANKLEs) A bend, twist or crinkle.

Derived terms

crinkle-crankle

Etymology

crank + le. {{coinage, en, in=1596, Michael Drayton}}. According to the , "Drayton probably derived ‘crankling’ from ‘crank’, a word which had its first recorded usage in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis (1594) where it describes a hare which ‘crankes and crosses with a thousand doubles’."

Anagrams

Lackner, clanker

Is Crankle a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
13
Words with Friends
16

The word Crankle is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends

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