Clunch

Definition: Clunch

Clunch

Noun

1. (British) hardened clay.

Date "clunch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references)

Specialty Definition: Clunch

Domain	Definition
Slang in 1811	CLUNCH. An awkward clownish fellow. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Clunch

Specialty definitions using "clunch": CLUNCH ♦ stone clunch, stony clunch. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Clunch

"Clunch" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Clunch" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	19	80,337

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Rhyming with "Clunch"

Words ending with "unch": Glunch, munch, runch, scrunch. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Clunch

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-h-l-n-u"
	-1 letter: culch, lunch.
	-3 letters: hun.
	-4 letters: nu, uh, un.
	Words containing the letters "c-c-h-l-n-u"
	+2 letters: unchicly, unclench, unclinch.
	+3 letters: chanceful, chuckling, clutching, crunchily, uncliched.
	+4 letters: crunchable, unchurchly, unclenched, unclenches, unclinched, unclinches.
	+5 letters: anacoluthic, chucklingly, uncatchable, uncheckable, unclenching, unclinching, untechnical.
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