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You can make 6 words from wink according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of wink

wink iwnk wnik nwik inwk niwk wikn iwkn wkin kwin ikwn kiwn wnki nwki wkni kwni nkwi knwi inkw nikw iknw kinw nkiw kniw

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word wink. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in wink.

Definitions and meaning of wink

wink

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɪŋk/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋk

Etymology 1

From Middle English wynken, from Old English wincian (“to wink, make a sign, close the eyes, blink”, weak verb), from Proto-West Germanic *winkōn (“to close one's eyes”), from Proto-Indo-European *weng- (“to bow, bend, arch, curve”). Cognate with Middle Low German winken (“to blink, wink”), German winken (“to nod, beckon, make a sign”). Related also to Saterland Frisian wäänke, Dutch wenken (“to beckon, motion”), Latin vacillare (“sway”), Lithuanian véngti (“to swerve, avoid”), Albanian vang (“tire, felloe”), Sanskrit वङ्गति (vaṅgati, “(he, she) limps”).

Verb

wink (third-person singular simple present winks, present participle winking, simple past and past participle winked)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To close one's eyes in sleep.
2. (intransitive) To close one's eyes.
3. (intransitive) Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.

   Synonyms: (obsolete) connive, shut one's eyes
4. (intransitive) To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)
6. (intransitive) To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker.
   • 1920, Katherine Mansfield, Letter to Richard Murray (ca. September 19), Vincent O. Sullivan & Margaret Scott, The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Vol. 4 (1996):

     Her kitchen is a series of Still Lives; the copper pans wink on the walls.

Synonyms

• nictitate

Translations

Noun

wink (plural winks)

1. An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
2. A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
3. A brief time; an instant.
4. The smallest possible amount.
   • 1899, Jack London, "The Men of Forty-Nine: 'Malemute Kid" Deals with a Duel," Overland Monthly, Vol. XXXIII, second series:

     It’s many’s the time I shot the selfsame rifiie before, and it’s many ’s the time after, but niver a wink of the same have I seen. 'T was the sight of a lifetime.

5. A subtle allusion.

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Etymology 2

Clipping of tiddlywink.

Noun

wink (plural winks)

2. (tiddlywinks) Synonym of tiddlywink (“small disc used in the game of tiddlywinks”)

Etymology 3

Clipping of periwinkle.

Noun

wink (plural winks)

1. (chiefly UK) Synonym of periwinkle

Translations

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɪŋk/

Verb

wink

1. singular imperative of winken
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of winken

Middle English

Verb

wink

1. Alternative form of wynken