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Is clink a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word clink is a Scrabble US word. The word clink is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is clink a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word clink is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

C3L1I1N1K5

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Yes. The word clink is a Words With Friends word. The word clink is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

CLINK,

4-letter words (4 found)

KILN,LICK,LINK,NICK,

3-letter words (6 found)

ICK,ILK,INK,KIN,LIN,NIL,

2-letter words (3 found)

IN,KI,LI,

You can make 14 words from clink according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of clink

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Definitions and meaning of clink

clink

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /klɪŋk/
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋk

Etymology 1

From Middle English clinken, from Old English clincan (compare clynnan, clynian (“to sound; resound”)), from Proto-Germanic *klinganą (“to sound”). Cognates include Middle Dutch klinken and German klingen. Related to cling (sound) and clang. May be further related to call.

Perhaps of onomatopoeic origin, as metal against metal.

Noun

clink (plural clinks)

  1. (onomatopoeia) The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.
    You could hear the clink of the glasses from the next room.
    • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V
      When Frere had come down, an hour before, the prisoners were all snugly between their blankets. They were not so now; though, at the first clink of the bolts, they would be back again in their old positions, to all appearances sound asleep.
  2. Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.
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Verb

clink (third-person singular simple present clinks, present participle clinking, simple past and past participle clinked)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another.
  2. (humorous, dated) To rhyme.
Derived terms
  • clinking stuff
Translations

Etymology 2

From the Clink prison in Southwark, London, itself presumably named after sound of doors being bolted or chains rattling.

Alternative forms

  • klink

Noun

clink (plural clinks)

  1. (dated, slang) A prison.
    If he keeps doing things like that, he’s sure to end up in the clink.
Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:jail

Etymology 3

Verb

clink (third-person singular simple present clinks, present participle clinking, simple past and past participle clinked)

  1. (transitive, Scotland) To clinch; to rivet.

Anagrams

  • Linck

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