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say it: KRAK-uhl
crackle is a verb, noun and adjective meaning "make a crackling sound". It is pronounced /ˈkɹækəl/ — KRAK-uhl. It carries 6 recorded senses.
to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks
“The blazing sun crackled the desert sand”
the sharp sound of snapping noises
glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface
having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware
“a crackle glaze”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for crackle come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.