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CRUNCHING

9 letters, 17 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What CRUNCHING Means

CRUNCHING is a form of CRUNCH, which means:

  1. verb: make a crushing noise“his shoes were crunching on the gravel”
  2. verb: press or grind with a crushing noise
  3. noun: the sound of something crunching“he heard the crunch of footsteps on the gravel path”
  4. noun: a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources)“an end-of-the-year crunch”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

CRUNCHING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 17 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 R1 U1 N1 C3 H4 I1 N1 G2.

Words Made From The Letters In CRUNCHING

77 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

8 letter words (1)

7 letter words (1)

6 letter words (6)

5 letter words (12)

4 letter words (20)

3 letter words (27)

2 letter words (10)

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