twinkle

twinkle is a 7-letter English word with 9 senses as intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink.
2. intransitive verb. To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate.
3. noun. A closing or opening, or a quick motion, of the eye; a wink or sparkle of the eye.
4. noun. A brief flash or gleam, esp. when rapidly repeated.
5. noun. The time of a wink; a twinkling.
6. noun. merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance

   "he had a sparkle in his eye"

   "there's a perpetual twinkle in his eyes"

   Synonyms: light, spark, sparkle

7. noun. a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash

   Synonyms: scintillation, sparkling

8. verb. gleam or glow intermittently

   "The lights were flashing"

   Synonyms: blink, flash, wink, winkle

9. verb. emit or reflect light in a flickering manner

   "Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?"

   Synonyms: scintillate, winkle

Synonyms

light, spark, sparkle, scintillation, sparkling, blink, flash, wink, winkle, scintillate

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in twinkle:

winklet

Common word forms

twinkled, twinkler, twinkles, twinkling

Words from these letters

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