crumble

Other forms of crumble

past tense

crumbled·

present participle

crumbling·

third person

crumbles·

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 crumble

What does crumble mean?

crumble means "fall apart". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crumble?

crumble has 2 syllables: crum-ble. The stress falls on "crum". In IPA it is /ˈkɹʌmbəl/.

What is another word for crumble?

Close synonyms include crumple, tumble, break down, collapse, fall apart. 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 crumble a common word?

crumble is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.