crinkle
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 7
Definition of crinkle
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(ambitransitive)To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
“He crinkled the wrapper and threw it out.”
“The old man's lined face crinkled into a smile.”
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verb
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(ambitransitive)To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
“He crinkled the wrapper and threw it out.”
“The old man's lined face crinkled into a smile.”
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(intransitive)To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
“The green wheat crinkles like a lake.”
“All the rooms were full of crinkling silks.”
noun
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A wrinkle, fold, crease, or unevenness.
“He observed the crinkles forming around his eyes and suddenly felt old.”
- The act of crinkling.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English crenclen (“to bend, buckle”), from Old English *crinclian, frequentative form of Old English crincan (“to yield”), from Proto-Germanic *kringaną (“to turn, to fall, to yield”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with North Frisian krenge, krönge (“to obtain, reach, attain”), Dutch krinkelen (“to turn, wind”). Related to cringe.
Words you can make from crinkle
75 playable · top: CLINKER (13 pts)
Best play clinker 13 points6-letter words
6 words5-letter words
13 words4-letter words
27 words- LICK 10 pts
- NECK 10 pts
- NICK 10 pts
- RECK 10 pts
- RICK 10 pts
- KEIR 8 pts
- KERN 8 pts
- KIER 8 pts
- KILN 8 pts
- KINE 8 pts
- KIRN 8 pts
- LIKE 8 pts
- LINK 8 pts
- RINK 8 pts
- CEIL 6 pts
- CINE 6 pts
- CIRE 6 pts
- LICE 6 pts
- NICE 6 pts
- RICE 6 pts
- LIEN 4 pts
- LIER 4 pts
- LINE 4 pts
- LIRE 4 pts
- REIN 4 pts
- RIEL 4 pts
- RILE 4 pts
3-letter words
20 words2-letter words
8 wordsHooks
2 extensions · 2 back
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