What WINKS Means
WINKS is a form of WINK, which means:
- verb: signal by winking“She winked at him”
- verb: gleam or glow intermittently“The lights were flashing”
- noun: a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)“if I had the chance, I'd do it in a flash”
- noun: closing one eye quickly as a signal
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
WINKS 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 W4 I1 N1 K5 S1.
Anagrams of WINKS (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In WINKS
20 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.
4 letter words (6)
3 letter words (10)
2 letter words (4)
Longer Words Containing WINKS
WINKS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.