atinkle

Not valid in Scrabble

It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
13
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/əˈtɪŋkəl/

Definition of atinkle

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Making a tinkling sound.
    “The mountain vale, arousing Ocean, sings, And all the air’s a-tinkle as with strings;”
    “1894, Kenneth Grahame, “The Fairy Wicket” in Pagan Papers, London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, p. 91, […] every copse and hedge-row seems a-tinkle with faint elfish laughter.”
    “O Love! were you the hooded hawk upon my hand that flutters, Its collar-band of gleaming bells atinkle as I ride,”
    “Impossibles march gaily for Gay Pride, ashaming any spectator a marcher would yearn to be matey with, mincing atinkle with bangles and lavender marcel”
    “Somewhere inside a full-mouthed bell tolled; its reverberations set the chandelier a-tinkle […]”

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Etymology

From a- + tinkle.

Anagrams of atinkle

2 plays · some not in Scrabble

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6-letter words

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5-letter words

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4-letter words

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3-letter words

40 words

2-letter words

19 words

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