crispness

Other forms of crispness

plural

crispnesses·

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.

Questions about crispness

What does crispness mean?

crispness means "a pleasing firmness and freshness". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crispness?

crispness has 2 syllables: crisp-ness. The stress falls on "crisp". In IPA it is /ˈkɹɪspnəs/.

What is another word for crispness?

Close synonyms include brittleness, crispiness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crispness a common word?

crispness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.