Word.ws English Dictionary

crackly

crackly adjective: involving or producing a crackle.

Adjective

crackly (comparative cracklier, superlative crackliest)

  1. Involving or producing a crackle.
    • the crackly sound of a fire

Forms of crackly

comparativecracklier
superlativecrackliest

Origin of crackly

From crackle + -y.

Questions about crackly

What does crackly mean?
Crackly means involving or producing a crackle.
What part of speech is crackly?
Crackly is an adjective.

Words near crackly in the dictionary

  1. crackling microstar
  2. crackling microstars
  3. cracklingly
  4. cracklings
  5. cracklins
  6. crackly
  7. crackmans
  8. crackmeter
  9. crackmeters
  10. crackne
  11. cracknel

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: crackly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “crackly.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/crackly. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.