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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
wrick is a noun and verb meaning "a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
twist suddenly so as to sprain
“wrench one's ankle”
“The wrestler twisted his shoulder”
“the hikers sprained their ankles when they fell”
“I turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several days”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wrick come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.