Crumbly

7 lettersadjectivemoderate

Updated June 2026

Definition

Tending to break apart easily into small pieces or to crumble into a powder.

“The crumbly cheese was ideal for scattering over the salad.”

Pronunciation

Syllables

crum·bly

Related Words

Synonyms

friable

Antonyms

solid firm dense compact

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Wordle

Ends in -LY, contains U, B near the middle is a less common Wordle position

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Scrabble

Worth 16 points, B and Y are higher-value tiles that push this word's score up

Words Related to Crumbly

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crumble

Words you can make from Crumbly

Shorter words formed from the letters in “crumbly”.

bryum burly crumb culmy cumly cumyl curby curly murly rumly blur brum burl bury byrl club clum crub crum culm curb curl cury cyul

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