how to pronounce winkle

/ˈwɪŋkəl/

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winkle is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of winkle in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… it's kind of a Rip Van Winkle story and …”

meanings of winkle

noun:

Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species Busycotypus canaliculata and Busycon carica.
The penis, especially that of a boy rather than that of a man.
A periwinkle or its shell, of family Littorinidae.

verb:

To extract.

name:

A surname.

winkle frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word winkle occurs in english on average 0.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics winkle can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that winkle can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;