sink: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 8 letter points · starts with S · ends with K
Meaning of sink
verb
- ergative, physical
To move or be moved into something. To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
Example: A stone sinks in water. The sun gradually sank in the west.
- physical, transitive
To move or be moved into something. To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
Example: An iceberg sank the Titanic. British battleships sank the Bismarck.
- physical, transitive
To move or be moved into something. To push (something) into something.
Example: The joint will hold tighter if you sink a wood screw through both boards. The dog sank its teeth into the delivery man's leg.
- physical, transitive
To move or be moved into something. To make by digging or delving.
Example: to sink a well in the ground
Listed forms: sinks, sinking, sank, sunk, sunken.
Source: Wiktionary — sink.
noun
A basin used for holding water for washing.
A drain for carrying off wastewater.
A sinkhole.
A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
Listed forms: sinks.
Source: Wiktionary — sink.
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 sink.
noun
a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
- sinkhole
- swallow hole
noun
a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
verb
fall or descend to a lower place or level
- drop
- drop down
verb
pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is sink in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of sink
S(1) + I(1) + N(1) + K(5) = 8 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 sink
2 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from sink
9 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in sink. Showing up to 24, longest first.