crunches
Definitions
Noun
- The sound of something crunching
- A critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources)
- The act of crushing
Verb
- Make a crushing noise
- Press or grind with a crushing noise
- Chew noisily
- Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
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Sounds Like
Words that sound like the term "crunches".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | colleges | 3 | 39 |
| 2 | occurrences | 4 | 10 |
| 3 | carriages | 3 | 6 |
| 4 | cottages | 3 | 6 |
| 5 | eclipses | 3 | 4 |
| 6 | actresses | 3 | 3 |
| 7 | choruses | 3 | 2 |
| 8 | collages | 3 | 2 |
| 9 | college's | 3 | 2 |
| 10 | exposes | 3 | 2 |
| 11 | caucuses | 3 | 1 |
| 12 | skirmishes | 3 | 1 |
| 13 | actress's | 3 | 0 |
| 14 | cabbages | 3 | 0 |
| 15 | cabooses | 3 | 0 |
| 16 | caucus's | 3 | 0 |
| 17 | clines's | 2 | 0 |
| 18 | colleges' | 3 | 0 |
| 19 | commerce's | 3 | 0 |
| 20 | cringes | 2 | 0 |
| 21 | kasich's | 3 | 0 |
| 22 | krebs's | 2 | 0 |
Spelled Like
Words that are spelled similarly to the term "crunches".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crutches | 2 | 6 |
| 2 | crunch | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | ranches | 2 | 2 |
| 4 | crunched | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | brunches | 2 | 1 |
| 6 | punches | 2 | 1 |
| 7 | hunches | 2 | 1 |
| 8 | couches | 2 | 1 |
| 9 | crunchers | 2 | 0 |
| 10 | cruncher | 2 | 0 |
| 11 | cruces | 2 | 0 |
| 12 | scrunched | 1 | 0 |
| 13 | scrunch | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | lunches | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | funches | 2 | 0 |
| 16 | crushes | 2 | 0 |
| 17 | crunchy | 2 | 0 |
| 18 | creches | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | bunches | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | truncheons | 2 | 0 |
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Words that often follow the term "crunches" in a sentence.
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Words that often precede the term "crunches" in a sentence.
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Words that are statistically associated with "crunches" in the same piece of text.
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Consonant Match
Words that contain the same consonants as the term "crunches".
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Results:
Term
Definitions: 7
Fragments: 1
Sound Alikes: 22
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 0
Words that Precede: 0
Statistically Associated: 0
Consonant Matches: 0
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
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