winks
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, winks sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1swink
- One letter away
- 17kinks, links
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and winks is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is wink — a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat). The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as w ih1 ng k s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
21 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- blinks
- brinks
- chinks
- drinks
- inks
- jinx
- kinks
- links
- minks
- pinks
- rinks
- shrinks
- sinks
- sphinx
- stinks
- thinks
- finks
- jinks
- lynx
- uplinks
- skinks
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: swink.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.
Lists it belongs to
Tier: everyday. The tiers come from the English Speller Database and rank by list size, not by how often a word is used — see where the words come from.