cronk

1. 1.

   utter a hoarse sound, like a raven

   Synonymscroak

   Broaderutter
2. 2.

   cry like a goose

   “The geese were honking”

   Synonymshonk

   Broaderutter

Other forms of cronk

past tense

cronked·

present participle

cronking·

third person

cronks·

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 cronk

What does cronk mean?

cronk means "utter a hoarse sound, like a raven". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cronk?

cronk has 1 syllable: cronk. In IPA it is /ˈkɹɑŋk/.

What is another word for cronk?

Close synonyms include croak, honk. 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 cronk a common word?

cronk 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.