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Is clinker a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word clinker is a Scrabble US word. The word clinker is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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Is clinker a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word clinker is a Scrabble UK word and has 13 points:

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Yes. The word clinker is a Words With Friends word. The word clinker is worth 16 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (2 found)

CLINKER,CRINKLE,

6-letter words (8 found)

ICKLER,LICKER,LINKER,NICKEL,NICKER,NICKLE,RELINK,RICKLE,

5-letter words (18 found)

CLEIK,CLERK,CLINE,CLINK,CRINE,ERICK,ICKER,ICKLE,INCEL,INCLE,INKER,INKLE,LIKEN,LIKER,LINER,NICER,REINK,RELIC,

4-letter words (38 found)

CEIL,CIEL,CINE,CIRE,CIRL,ERIC,ICER,KEIR,KERN,KIER,KILN,KINE,KIRN,LEIR,LICE,LICK,LIEN,LIER,LIKE,LINE,LINK,LIRE,LIRK,NECK,NERK,NICE,NICK,NIRL,RECK,REIK,REIN,RENK,RICE,RICK,RIEL,RILE,RINE,RINK,

3-letter words (26 found)

CEL,EIK,ELK,ERK,ERN,ICE,ICK,IKE,ILK,INK,IRE,IRK,KEN,KIN,KIR,LEI,LEK,LIE,LIN,NEK,NIE,NIL,REC,REI,REN,RIN,

2-letter words (8 found)

EL,EN,ER,IN,KI,LI,NE,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 101 words from clinker according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of clinker

clinker

Alternative forms

  • (brick): klinker

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈklɪŋkə(ɹ)/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈklɪŋkɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋkə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: clink‧er

Etymology 1

From Dutch klinkaerd, later klinker, from klinken (“to ring, resound”).

Noun

clinker (countable and uncountable, plural clinkers)

  1. A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands. [from 17th c.]
  2. A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat. [from 17th c.]
  3. Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling. [from 18th c.]
  4. An intermediate product in the manufacture of Portland cement, obtained by sintering limestone and alumino-silicate materials such as clay into nodules in a cement kiln.
  5. Hardened volcanic lava. [from 19th c.]
  6. A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging. [from 19th c.]
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Verb

clinker (third-person singular simple present clinkers, present participle clinkering, simple past and past participle clinkered)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To convert or be converted into clinker.

Etymology 2

From clink +‎ -er.

Noun

clinker (plural clinkers)

  1. Someone or something that clinks.
  2. (in the plural) fetters.
Translations

Etymology 3

From clincher.

Noun

clinker (uncountable)

  1. (nautical, chiefly attributive) A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.
    clinker planking; a clinker dinghy
Synonyms
  • lapstrake
Derived terms
  • clinker-built
  • clinkerwise
Translations

Anagrams

  • crinkle

French

Noun

clinker m (plural clinkers)

  1. clinker

Source: wiktionary.org