What WRINKLE Means
- verb: gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker“purse one's lips”
- verb: make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; ‘crisp’ is archaic“The dress got wrinkled”
- noun: a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface“his face has many lines”
- noun: a minor difficulty“they finally have the wrinkles pretty well ironed out”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
WRINKLE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as W4 R1 I1 N1 K5 L1 E1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 64 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of WRINKLE (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In WRINKLE
83 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 (5)
5 letter words (7)
4 letter words (35)
KEIRKERNKEWLKIERKILNKINEKIRNKNEWLEIRLIENLIERLIKELINELINKLIRELIRKLWEINERKNIRLREIKREINRENKRIELRILERINERINKWEILWEIRWELKWIELWILEWINEWINKWIREWREN
3 letter words (27)
2 letter words (9)
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