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WINKLED

7 letters, 15 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What WINKLED Means

WINKLED is a form of WINKLE, which means:

  1. verb: emit or reflect light in a flickering manner“Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?”
  2. verb: gleam or glow intermittently“The lights were flashing”
  3. noun: small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked
  4. noun: edible marine gastropod

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

WINKLED is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 15 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as W4 I1 N1 K5 L1 E1 D2.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 65 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In WINKLED

104 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.

6 letter words (8)

5 letter words (14)

4 letter words (37)

3 letter words (34)

2 letter words (11)

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