crank
adjective / noun
Meaning
- adjectiveHard; difficult.
- nounAn ailment, ache.
- nounA bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.
Example:
I grind my coffee by hand with a coffee grinder with a crank handle.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Common
- #978 of 8,600 five-letter words by how often they're used
- Can be a Play Five answer
- As a first guess
- Tests likely letters better than 64% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 1 · Different letters: 5 · Repeated letters: None