WINKLE is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. WINKLE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WINKLE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 46 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WINKLE is to know. It scores 13 from 6 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WINKLE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WINKLE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in WINKLE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 229,948.
What does WINKLE mean in Scrabble?
noun
British
A small edible sea snail with a spiral shell, a type of periwinkle; as a verb, to pry or prise something out.
Winkles are small shore-dwelling snails, boiled and eaten in Britain, traditionally picked out of their shells with a pin. That picking action gave the verb to winkle, meaning to extract something stubborn, as when a reporter winkles a secret out of a witness. The noun is the shortened form of periwinkle.
How WINKLE is used
The noun is British; the verb is common in informal English everywhere.
- We ate a bag of winkles on the pier.
- She used a pin to winkle the snail from its shell.
- It took an hour to winkle the truth out of him.
- The tide left a scatter of winkles among the rocks.
- He tried to winkle the stone from between the planks.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WINKLE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of WINKLE
The 6 tiles of WINKLE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with WINKLE
4 longer words begin with WINKLE.
Shorter words from the letters in WINKLE
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Common questions about WINKLE
- Is WINKLE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WINKLE, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WINKLE worth?
- WINKLE is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WINKLE mean?
- A small edible sea snail with a spiral shell, a type of periwinkle; as a verb, to pry or prise something out.
- What letters can be added to WINKLE?
- WINKLE takes 4 hooks: 1 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of WINKLE:
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