stink

stink is a 5-letter English word with 6 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting odor. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 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 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting odor.
2. transitive verb. To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.
3. noun. A strong, offensive smell; a disgusting odor; a stench.
4. noun. a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant

   Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, reek, stench

5. verb. smell badly and offensively

   "The building reeks of smoke"

   Synonyms: reek

6. verb. be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance

   "This term paper stinks!"

Synonyms

fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, reek, stench

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in stink:

knits, skint

Common word forms

stinks, stinker, stinking

Words from these letters

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