crescendo

crescendo is a 9-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective & adjectivedverb, noun, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. adjective & adjectivedverb. With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score.
2. noun. A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone with which a passage is performed.
3. noun. A passage to be performed with constantly increasing volume of tone.
4. noun. (music) a gradual increase in loudness
5. verb. grow louder

   "The music crescendoes here"

6. adjective. gradually increasing in volume

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in crescendo:

coercends, conceders

Common word forms

crescendos, crescendoed, crescendoing

Words from these letters

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