Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

number-crunching

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.15 in modern English

Syllables: num-ber-crunch-ing
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any computing application that requires large amounts of numerical calculation.

Uncountable

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

number crunching (alternative)

Questions

What does number-crunching mean?: Any computing application that requires large amounts of numerical calculation.

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