What KINK Means
- noun: a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (‘rick’ and ‘wrick’ are British)
- noun: a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
- verb: curl tightly“crimp hair”
- verb: form a curl, curve, or kink“the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
KINK is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as K5 I1 N1 K5.
Words Made From The Letters In KINK
4 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
3 letter words (2)
2 letter words (2)
Longer Words Containing KINK
KINK appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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