pink: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 10 letter points · starts with P · ends with K
Meaning of pink
noun
- countable, uncountable
A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.
Example: My new dress is a wonderful shade of pink.
- countable, uncountable
A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers. Magenta, the colour evoked by red and blue light when combined.
- countable, uncountable
A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers. Pale red.
- countable, uncountable
Any of various flowers of that colour in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.
Example: This garden in particular has a beautiful bed of pinks.
Listed forms: pinks.
Source: Wiktionary — pink.
adj
Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
Having conjunctivitis.
By comparison to red (communist), supportive of socialist ideas but not actually socialist or communist.
Listed forms: pinker, pinkest.
Source: Wiktionary — pink.
verb
- intransitive
To become pink in color, to redden.
- transitive
To turn (something) pink.
- transitive
To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.
Listed forms: pinks, pinking, pinked.
Source: Wiktionary — pink.
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 pink.
adjective
of a light shade of red
noun
any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers
- garden pink
noun
a person with mildly leftist political views
verb
make light, repeated taps on a surface
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is pink in our word lists?
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of pink
P(3) + I(1) + N(1) + K(5) = 10 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 pink
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 pink
8 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in pink. Showing up to 24, longest first.