skink
/skɪŋk/noun, verb
skink is spelled S-K-I-N-K: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 80,453rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, skink means “A shin of beef” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of skink is skinks.
How many letters and syllables are in skink?
| Letters | 5: S-K-I-N-K |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 7 million words; the 80,453rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is skink?
Skink appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 80,453rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce skink?
- US /skɪŋk/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-skink.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with skink?
9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as skink from its last stressed vowel (/ɪŋk/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of skink
- skinks plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- skinking participle, present
- skinked participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does skink mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
ScotlandA shin of beef.
lean sirloin, skink and pot-roast
- 2
ScotlandobsoleteA soup or pottage made from a boiled shin of beef.
- 3
ScotlandUsually preceded by a descriptive word: a soup or pottage made using other ingredients.
Cullen skink
- 4
A lizard of the family Scincidae, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed; a sandfish.
- 5
obsoleteA drink.
verb
- 1
ScotlandTo serve (a drink).
- 2
ScotlandobsoleteTo give (something) as a present.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Skink in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense lizard:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does skink come from?
Possibly from Middle Low German schink, schinke, schenke (“leg; shank; shin bone; ham”), from Old Saxon skinka, from Proto-West Germanic *skinkō (“shank; thigh; that which is bent”), from Proto-Germanic *skinkô, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (“to limp; to be crooked, slant”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).