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Is skink a Scrabble word?

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

S1K5I1N1K5

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

S1K5I1N1K5

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5-letter words (2 found)

KINKS,SKINK,

4-letter words (5 found)

INKS,KINK,KINS,SINK,SKIN,

3-letter words (8 found)

INK,INS,KIN,KIS,NIS,SIK,SIN,SKI,

2-letter words (4 found)

IN,IS,KI,SI,

You can make 19 words from skink according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of skink

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Definitions and meaning of skink

skink

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /skɪŋk/
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋk

Etymology 1

Possibly from Middle Low German schink, schinke, schenke (“leg; shank; shin bone; ham”), from Old Saxon skinka, from Proto-West Germanic *skinkō (“shank; thigh; that which is bent”), from Proto-Germanic *skinkô, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (“to limp; to be crooked, slant”).

The word is cognate with Danish skinke (“ham”), Middle Dutch schenke, schinke (“shin; hough; ham”), Icelandic skinka (“ham”), Norwegian skinke (“ham”), Old English ġesċincio, ġesċinco (“kidney fat”), Old High German skinka, skinko (“shank; shin bone”) (Middle High German schinke (“shank; shin bone; ham”), modern German Schinken (“ham; pork from the hindquarters”)), Old Saxon skinka (“ham”), Old Swedish skinke (modern Swedish skinka (“ham”)).

Noun

skink (plural skinks)

  1. (Scotland, Northern England) A shin of beef.
  2. (chiefly Scotland, obsolete) A soup or pottage made from a boiled shin of beef.
  3. (chiefly Scotland, by extension) Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a soup or pottage made using other ingredients.
Derived terms
  • Cullen skink

Etymology 2

From Middle French scinc, from Latin scincus, from Ancient Greek σκίγγος (skíngos), σκίγκος (skínkos).

Noun

skink (plural skinks)

  1. A lizard of the family Scincidae, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed; a sandfish.
Derived terms
  • blind skink (Dibamus spp.)
  • blue-tailed skink
  • blue-tongued skink, blue-tongue skink (Tiliqua spp.)
  • bobtail skink (Tiliqua rugosa)
  • brown skink (Oligosoma zelandicum)
  • coal skink (Plestiodon anthracinus)
  • crevice skink (Egernia spp.)
  • emo skink (Emoia spp.)
  • fire skink (Mochlus fernandi)
  • King's skink (Egernia kingii)
  • legless skink
  • mountain skink
  • supple skink (Lygosoma spp.)
  • rock skink (Flexiseps decaryi)
  • sand skink
  • water skink (Eulamprus spp.)
  • western skink (Plestiodon skiltonianus)
Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English skinken, skynken, skenken, from Middle Dutch scinken, scenken, schenken and/or Old Norse skenkja, both from Proto-Germanic *skankijaną. Cognate with German schenken (“to give as a present”), Dutch schenken (“to pour, give as a present”). See also the inherited doublet shink.

Verb

skink (third-person singular simple present skinks, present participle skinking, simple past and past participle skinked)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, Scotland) To serve (a drink).
  2. (transitive, Scotland, Northern England, obsolete) To give (something) as a present.

Noun

skink (plural skinks)

  1. (obsolete) A drink.

References

  • The Dictionary of the Scots Language
  • The Dictionary of the Scots Language
  • “skink”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • kinks

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English skink, from Middle French scinc, from Latin scincus, from Ancient Greek σκίγγος (skíngos), σκίγκος (skínkos).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skɪŋk/
  • Hyphenation: skink
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋk

Noun

skink m (plural skinken, diminutive skinkje n)

  1. A skink, any lizard of the family Scincidae

Derived terms

  • hazelskink

Source: wiktionary.org