winkle

winkle is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any periwinkle. Face value is 13 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.

6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Any periwinkle.
2. noun. Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, esp., in the United States, either of two species of Fulgar (F. canaliculata, and F. carica).
3. noun. edible marine gastropod

   Synonyms: periwinkle

4. noun. small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked

   Synonyms: periwinkle

5. verb. remove or displace from a position
6. verb. gleam or glow intermittently

   "The lights were flashing"

   Synonyms: blink, flash, twinkle, wink

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

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

   Synonyms: scintillate, twinkle

Synonyms

periwinkle, blink, flash, twinkle, wink, scintillate

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in winkle:

welkin, winkel

Common word forms

winkled, winkler, winkles, winkling

Words from these letters

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