chink

chink is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 15 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.
2. intransitive verb. To crack; to open.
3. transitive verb. To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
4. transitive verb. To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
5. noun. A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.
6. noun. Money; cash.
7. transitive verb. To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
8. intransitive verb. To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.
9. noun. a short light metallic sound

   Synonyms: click, clink

10. noun. a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall
11. noun. (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent

    Synonyms: chinaman

12. verb. make cracks or chinks in

    "The heat checked the paint"

    Synonyms: check

13. verb. fill the chinks of, as with caulking
14. verb. make or emit a high sound

    "tinkling bells"

    Synonyms: clink, tink, tinkle

Synonyms

click, clink, chinaman, check, tink, tinkle

Common word forms

chinks, chinked, chinker, chinking

Words from these letters

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