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CRANKEST

8 letters

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Classic 11 pts
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Super Big 11 pts

CRANKEST is a valid 8-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 11 in Super Big Boggle.

CRANKEST root CRANK-est

Word family

CRANK 2 CRANKER-er 5 CRANKS-s 3 CRANKING-ing 11 CRANKED-ed 5
adjective
  1. dialectalHard; difficult.
  2. informalStrange; weird; odd.
  3. dialectalBent; twisted; crooked; distorted; out of repair.
  4. Sick; unwell.
  5. Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
  6. Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
noun
  1. dialectalAn ailment, ache.
  2. informalAn ill-tempered or nasty person.
    • Billy-Bob is a nasty old crank! He chased my cat away.
  3. A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;
  4. A fit of temper or passion.
  5. UKdatedinformalA person who is considered strange or odd by others, and may behave in unconventional ways.
    • John is a crank because he talks to himself.
  6. informalAn amateur in science or other technical subjects who persistently advocates flawed theories.
    • That crank next door thinks he’s created cold fusion in his garage.
  7. archaicslangA baseball fan.
  8. obsoleteA sick person; an invalid.
  9. A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.
    • I grind my coffee by hand with a coffee grinder with a crank handle.
  10. abbreviationclippingClipping of crankshaft.
  11. The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
    • Yes, a crank was all it needed to start.
    • Give it a forceful crank.
  12. archaicAny bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
  13. USslangSynonym of methamphetamine.
    • Danny got abscesses from shooting all that bathtub crank.
  14. rareA twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
  15. slangThe penis.
verb
  1. transitiveTo turn by means of a crank.
    • Motorists had to crank their engine by hand.
  2. intransitiveTo turn a crank.
    • He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.
  3. intransitiveTo turn.
    • He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.
  4. transitiveTo cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
    • I turn the key and crank the engine; yet it doesn't turn over
    • Crank it up!
  5. intransitiveTo act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
    • Quit cranking about your spilt milk!
  6. intransitiveTo be running at a high level of output or effort.
    • By one hour into the shift, the boys were really cranking.
  7. datedintransitiveTo run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.