Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

winking

/wˈɪŋkɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.82 in modern English

Syllables: wink-ing
IPA: /wˈɪŋkɪŋ/

15

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of wink

noun

The act of someone who winks.

Example Sentences

"I have known some happy spirits, who could sit for hours, when no other amusement presented, and talk of the winkings and squintings, they had lately been so eagle-eyed, as to detect between some innocent couple […]"
"[…] Billy didn’t get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city is capable of doing when the sun goes down, which is to wink its lights on one by one. ¶ There was a broad river to reflect those lights, which would have made their nighttime winkings very pretty indeed."

Inflected Forms

winkings (plural)

Phrases

jaw winking like winking quick as winking winking monkey winking owl

Synonyms

blinking blink eye blink wink nictitation nictation

Rhymes With

thinking drinking linking sinking shrinking blinking rethinking stinking unthinking plinking

Questions

How do you pronounce winking?: The recorded pronunciation is /wˈɪŋkɪŋ/.
What does winking mean?: present participle and gerund of wink

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