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CRESCENDO

9 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 18 pts

CRESCENDO is a valid 9-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 18 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

CRESCENDOS-s 11 CRESCENDI 11 CRESCENDOES-es 11 CRESCENDOING-ing 11 CRESCENDOED-ed 11
noun
  1. An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ), by musicians called a hairpin.
  2. figurativelyA gradual increase of anything, especially to a dramatic climax.
    • Their fighting rose in a fearsome crescendo.
  3. figurativelynonstandardThe climax of a gradual increase.
    • Their arguing rose to a fearsome crescendo.
verb
  1. To increase in intensity; to reach or head for a crescendo.
    • The band crescendoed and then suddenly went silent.
adverb
  1. Gradually increasing in force or loudness.