click: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 13 letter points · starts with C · ends with K
Meaning of click
noun
A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact of something small and hard against something hard, such as by the operation of a switch, a lock, or a latch.
Example: As I turned the key, the lock gave a click and the door opened.
- UK
The act of snapping one's fingers.
An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
Example: tsk is a click in English.
The sound made by a dolphin.
Listed forms: clicks.
Source: Wiktionary — click.
verb
- transitive
To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
- intransitive
To emit a click.
- UK
To snap one's fingers.
To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
Listed forms: clicks, clicking, clicked.
Source: Wiktionary — click.
intj
The sound of a click.
Example: Click! The door opened.
Source: Wiktionary — click.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for click.
noun
a short light metallic sound
noun
a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu)
- suction stop
noun
a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward
noun
depression of a button on a computer mouse
- mouse click
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is click in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of click
C(3) + L(1) + I(1) + C(3) + K(5) = 13 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of click
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from click
7 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in click. Showing up to 24, longest first.