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SINK

4 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What SINK Means

  1. verb: fall or descend to a lower place or level“He sank to his knees”
  2. verb: cause to sink“The Japanese sank American ships in Pearl Harbor”
  3. noun: plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
  4. noun: (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system“the ocean is a sink for carbon dioxide”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SINK is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 I1 N1 K5.

Anagrams of SINK (3)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In SINK

12 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 (8)

2 letter words (4)

Longer Words Containing SINK

SINK appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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