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Is cranny a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word cranny is a Scrabble US word. The word cranny is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

C3R1A1N1N1Y4

Is cranny a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word cranny is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

C3R1A1N1N1Y4

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Yes. The word cranny is a Words With Friends word. The word cranny is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

CRANNY,

5-letter words (3 found)

CANNY,CARNY,NANCY,

4-letter words (10 found)

CANN,CANY,CARN,CRAN,CRAY,CYAN,NARC,NARY,RACY,YARN,

3-letter words (14 found)

ANN,ANY,ARC,ARY,CAN,CAR,CAY,CRY,NAN,NAY,RAN,RAY,RYA,YAR,

2-letter words (6 found)

AN,AR,AY,NA,NY,YA,

You can make 34 words from cranny according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of cranny

cranny

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɹæni/
  • Rhymes: -æni

Etymology 1

From Middle English crany, crani (“cranny”), apparently a diminutive of *cran (+ -y), from Old French cran, cren (“notch, fissure”), a derivative of crener (“to notch, split”), from Medieval Latin crenō (“split”, verb), from Vulgar Latin *crinō (“split, break”, verb), of obscure origin.

Despite a spurious use in Pliny, connection to Latin crēna is doubtful. Instead, probably of Germanic or Celtic origin. Compare Old High German chrinna (“notch, groove, crevice”), Alemannic German Krinne (“small crack, channel, groove”), Low German karn (“notch, groove, crevice, cranny”), Old Irish ara-chrinin (“to perish, decay”).

Noun

cranny (plural crannies)

  1. A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
  2. A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
Related terms
  • any nook or cranny, every nook and cranny, nook and cranny, nook or cranny
Translations

Verb

cranny (third-person singular simple present crannies, present participle crannying, simple past and past participle crannied)

  1. (intransitive) To break into, or become full of, crannies.
    • 1567, Arthur Golding: Ovid's Metamophoses; Bk. 2, line 333
      The ground did cranie everie where and light did pierce to hell.
  2. (intransitive) To haunt or enter by crannies.

Etymology 2

Hindi [Term?]

Noun

cranny (plural crannies)

  1. (India, obsolete) A clerk writing English.
  2. (India, obsolete) A member of the East Indians, or mixed-race people, from among whom English copyists were chiefly recruited.

References

  • Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “cranny”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

Source: wiktionary.org