Definitions for inkling

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Spelling: [ingk-ling]
IPA: /ˈɪŋk lɪŋ/

Inkling is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in inkling (giiklnn).

Definitions for inkling

noun

  1. a slight suggestion or indication; hint; intimation:
  2. a vague idea or notion; slight understanding:

Origin of inkling

1505-15; obsolete inkle to hint (Middle English inklen) + -ing1; akin to Old English inca suspicion

Examples for inkling

Did he figure out all at once that Walt was Heisenberg, or do you think that he had an inkling earlier?

When they had had sufficient to eat and drink he allowed them to get an inkling of what was in his mind.

Based on the way they sprang into action on Friday, his family had more than an inkling of what might be ahead.

I took the elevator up to the second floor without any inkling of what was about to happen.

Then the parson had his first inkling that the strange visitor must be mad.

A day's visit from Paris will give you an inkling of this, but only an inkling.

Her testimony was necessarily brief, as she had never met Valle, or had any inkling that he was stalking her.

I should judge, from that, he has an inkling of its value, and wants merely to corroborate it.

Perhaps that should have been the first inkling that this might not be a totally kosher idea.

Force was useless: in some trick lay the chance; and I had already an inkling of what we must do.

Word Value for inkling
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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