crackle

/kɹˈækəl/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

verb

1. make a crackling sound
   “My Rice Krispies crackled in the bowl”
2. make a crushing noise
   “his shoes were crunching on the gravel”
3. to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks
   “The blazing sun crackled the desert sand”

noun

1. the sharp sound of snapping noises
2. glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface

adjective

1. having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware
   “a crackle glaze”

Synonyms for crackle

• crepitate
• crunch
• scranch
• scraunch
• crackling
• crepitation
• crackleware
• crackle china
• fancy

Words that rhyme with crackle

• tackle
• cackle
• shackle
• tabernacle
• grackle
• hackle
• jackal
• ramshackle
• spackle
• crackel
• hackel
• hackl
• jackel
• jakel
• kachel
• mackall
• mackel
• racal
• rachal
• unshackle
• yackel
• yakel