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— English words —

• crank adj. (Slang) Strange, weird, odd.
• crank adj. Sick; unwell.
• crank adj. (Nautical, of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
• crank adj. Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
• crank n. A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft…
• crank n. The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
• crank n. (Archaic) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
• crank n. (Informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person.
• crank n. A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim…
• crank n. A fit of temper or passion.
• crank n. (Informal, Britain, dated in US) A person who is considered strange or odd by others. They may behave…
• crank n. (Archaic, baseball, slang, 1800s) A baseball fan.
• crank n. (Informal) An advocate of a pseudoscience movement.
• crank n. (US, slang) Synonym of methamphetamine.
• crank n. (Rare) A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
• crank n. (Obsolete) A sick person; an invalid.
• crank n. (Slang) A penis.
• crank v. (Transitive) To turn by means of a crank.
• crank v. (Intransitive) To turn a crank.
• crank v. (Intransitive, of a crank or similar) To turn.
• crank v. (Transitive) To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
• crank v. (Intransitive) To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
• crank v. (Intransitive) To be running at a high level of output or effort.
• crank v. (Intransitive, dated) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
• Crank prop.n. A surname.

— English words, defined in French —

• crank n. Manivelle.
• crank n. (Familier) Détraqué, tordu.
• crank v. Tourner (comme une manivelle).

— English word, defined in Italian —

• crank s. Manovella.

— In Dutch —

• crank n. Verbindingsstuk tussen pedaal en trapas van een fiets.

129 English words from 25 English definitions

act advocate and Any Archaic arm as␣of as␣though attached axle ballast baseball because because␣of behave bend bent brisk Britain by␣means␣of caprice capsize cargo cause change complaining considered consisting consisting␣in converting course crank crankshaft cranky crook dated double effort end end␣of especially fan fit form Full high ill ill-tempered Informal insufficient into Intransitive invalid irritably level Liable lively manner may meaning means methamphetamine mind motion movement nasty Nautical nearly Obsolete odd of␣a of␣an opinionated other others output overconfident passage passion penis perpendicular person piece play poorly power pseudoscience Rare run running running␣at run␣with shaft ship sick similar slang speech spin spirit sprightly stowed strange surname Synonym temper tempered the They though through to␣the Transitive turn turned turn␣in turning twist unreasonably unwell via weird whim who wind winding with word word␣play

3 English words from 5 foreign definitions

Détraqué een van

12 foreign words from 5 foreign definitions

comme Familier fiets manivelle Manovella pedaal tordu Tourner trapas tussen une Verbindingsstuk

73 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

cranks Cranks cranky cranked cranker crank␣it crankle crank␣up crankarm crank␣arm crank␣bug crankers crankery crankest crankier crankily cranking crankish crankled crankles crankman crankmen crank␣out crankpin crank␣pin crankset cranks␣up crankarms crankbait crankbird crank␣bugs crank␣call crankcase cranked␣up crankiest crankings crankless crankling crankness crankpins cranksets cranksome cranks␣out crankwalk crank␣angle crankbaits crankbirds crank␣calls crankcases crankiness +23 words

18 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

scranky uncranked bellcranks bell␣cranks overcranks noncranking overcranked undercranks overcranking undercranked Killiecrankie undercranking crinkle-crankle crinkum-crankum crinkle-crankles crinkum-crankums Killiecrankie␣diamond Killiecrankie␣diamonds

10 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

bellcrank bell␣crank handcrank hand␣crank overcrank undercrank turn␣someone's␣crank turns␣someone's␣crank turned␣someone's␣crank turning␣someone's␣crank

9 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

CRA cran Cran CRAN cran- ran Ran RAN rank

7 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

arc Arc ARC arc- knar Nar narc

2 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

ranck Ranck

15 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

canker corank cranks Cranks cranky Karnic nacker Neckar nickar rackan rackin' rack␣in rancks Rancks unrack

22 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

ARNK cark Cark carn Carn cran Cran CRAN cran- crna cRNA karn Karn knar kran nack narc nark NRCA rack RACK rank

23 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

brank chank clank crack craik Craik crane Crane crang crans Crans Crask crawk cronk Cronk crunk Crunk drank frank Frank Krank prank trank

5 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

cran Cran CRAN cran- rank

One epenthesis (New word found when adding only one letter.)

corank

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