how to pronounce wink

/wɪŋk/

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wink is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of wink in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… moving up to wink bank and the fabulous …”

meaning of wink

To wink means to close one eye for a short time.

wink frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word wink occurs in english on average 2.3 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 wink 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 wink can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;