SINKY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. SINKY is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 12 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept SINKY?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SINKY is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SINKY
No single letter turns SINKY into another word.
How SINKY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SINKY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 174,277.
What does SINKY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
dialect
Describing ground that gives way or yields underfoot, as in soft or boggy land.
Sinky is used for soil or turf that feels soft and unstable when a person walks across it, the kind of ground where a boot sinks slightly with each step. Travellers and hikers use it to warn of marshy patches or waterlogged fields that could trap a foot or a wheel. The word grows naturally from sink plus the adjective ending -y, but it has settled into this specific sense of yielding ground rather than general sinking, and it appears mainly in regional and older travel writing rather than ordinary conversation.
How SINKY is used
Used mainly in regional and older writing to describe soft, boggy ground that yields underfoot.
- The path grew sinky near the edge of the marsh.
- Cattle avoid the sinky field after heavy rain.
- Her boots sank into the sinky turf beside the stream.
- The guide warned us about a sinky stretch of moor ahead.
- Rain had left the meadow sinky and hard to cross.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SINKY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SINKY
Common questions about SINKY
- Is SINKY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and SINKY is not in it.
- How many points is SINKY worth?
- SINKY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SINKY mean?
- Describing ground that gives way or yields underfoot, as in soft or boggy land.
- What letters can be added to SINKY?
- No single letter can be added to SINKY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SINKY:
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