Definitions for knacks

knacks knack

Spelling: [nak]
IPA: /næk/

Knacks is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in knacks (ackkns).

Definitions for knacks

noun

  1. a special skill, talent, or aptitude:
  2. a clever or adroit way of doing something.
  3. a trick or ruse.
  4. a sharp, cracking sound.
  5. Archaic. a knickknack; trinket.

Origin of knacks

1325-75; Middle English: trick; perhaps same word as knak sharp-sounding blow, rap, cracking noise (imitative)

Examples for knacks

I said it required a knack or a genius or something and that I was certain you had it.

Nigel Lythgoe has a knack for resuscitating pop culture tenets that seem on their death bed.

Brinsley was trying to produce tracks—hip-hop, mostly—and he apparently had a knack as a techie.

Nothing is more important to good teaching than the knack of apt illustration.

The Moors brought the knack from the ancient city of Damascus.

In the film, Foxx is able to showcase his singing, knack for comedy and all-around versatility.

Yet do I know what a task I have undertaken, because of the knack you are noted for at writing.

How did you develop this knack for inventing, and surrealism?

Puck artists, like their predecessors, combined picture-making skills with a caricatural precision and a knack for lethal symbols.

Did we children of Boccaccio impart to you that knack for practical joking?

Word Value for knacks
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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