# drink

> English word · Verb · IPA /dɹɪŋk/ · frequency rank #1,334

## Definitions
1. To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
2. To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).
3. To consume alcoholic beverages.
4. To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
5. To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
6. To toast (someone or something) with a drink, honour; to wish well (see drink to), especially
7. To toast (someone or something) with a drink, honour; to wish well (see drink to), especially:
8. To toast (someone or something) with a drink, honour; to wish well (see drink to), especially:
9. To smoke, as tobacco.
10. Used in phrasal verbs: drink down, drink in, drink off, drink out, drink to, drink up.

## Etymology
From Middle English drinken, from Old English drincan (“to drink, swallow up, engulf”), from Proto-West Germanic *drinkan, from Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”), of uncertain origin; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrenǵ- (“to draw into one's mouth, sip, gulp”), nasalised variant of *dʰreǵ- (“to draw, glide”).
Cognates
Cognate with Yola drink (“to drink”), North Frisian drank, drainke, drink, drinke (“to drink”), West Frisian drinke (“to drink”), Alemannic German trénge, trenhu, trinche, tringhien, trinke (“to drink”), Bavarian dringa, trinckn, trinkhn, trinkn (“to drink”), Cimbrian trinkan, trinkhan (“to drink”), Dutch, Low German drinken (“to drink”), German, Mòcheno trinken (“to drink”), Luxembourgish drénken (“to drink”), Yiddish טרינקען (trinken, “to drink”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål drikke (“to drink”), Elfdalian drikka (“to drink”), Faroese, Icelandic drekka (“to drink”), Jutish drenk (“to drink”), Norwegian Nynorsk drikka, drikke (“to drink”), Swedish dricka (“to drink”), Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌺𐌰𐌽 (drigkan, “to drink”), Vandalic drincan (“to drink”), French trinquer (“to booze, drink alcohol”), Italian trincare (“to knock back (a drink)”), Spanish trincar (“to get drunk”).

## Easily confused with
- **drip** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drink-vs-drip)
- **dunk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drink-vs-dunk)
- **drive** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drink-vs-drive)
- **dying** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drink-vs-dying)
- **drunk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drink-vs-drunk)
- **drone** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drink-vs-drone)
- **during** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drink-vs-during)
- **drinks** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drink-vs-drinks)
- **drying** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drink-vs-drying)
- **drunks** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drink-vs-drunks)
- **drinker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/drink-vs-drinker)
- **DIN** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/din-vs-drink)
- **DRI** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dri-vs-drink)
- **dick** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dick-vs-drink)
- **disk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/disk-vs-drink)
- **ding** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ding-vs-drink)
- **dine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dine-vs-drink)
- **dirk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dirk-vs-drink)
- **dino** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dino-vs-drink)
- **dank** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dank-vs-drink)

## Common misspellings (8)
`ddrink`, `dirnk`, `drikn`, `drinkk`, `drinnk`, `drnik`, `drrink`, `rdink`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/drink