GAVELKIND is a valid Scrabble word — 18 points
Yes. GAVELKIND is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 18 points in Scrabble and 22 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept GAVELKIND?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GAVELKIND is to know. It scores 18 from 9 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GAVELKIND
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
gavelkindsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GAVELKIND scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in GAVELKIND, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 1 | 3 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so GAVELKIND has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about GAVELKIND
- All 9 letters of GAVELKIND are different — nothing repeats.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does GAVELKIND mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A medieval system of land tenure, chiefly in Kent, under which an estate was divided equally among all the sons of a dead landholder.
The point of gavelkind was that no single heir took everything, which set it apart from the rule of the eldest son inheriting the whole estate. Holdings under gavelkind tended to be cut into ever smaller strips over the generations. Historians mention it when explaining why Kent had such a patchwork of small farms.
How GAVELKIND is used
Gavelkind appears almost only in works on medieval law, land history and the customs of Kent.
- The farm had been held in gavelkind, so each of the five brothers received an equal share.
- Under gavelkind a dying man could not leave the whole manor to his eldest son.
- Her essay compared gavelkind with the primogeniture practised elsewhere in England.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GAVELKIND and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with GAVELKIND
1 longer words begin with GAVELKIND.
Shorter words from the letters in GAVELKIND
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Common questions about GAVELKIND
- Is GAVELKIND valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts GAVELKIND, where it scores 22 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is GAVELKIND worth?
- GAVELKIND is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 22 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GAVELKIND mean?
- A medieval system of land tenure, chiefly in Kent, under which an estate was divided equally among all the sons of a dead landholder.
- What letters can be added to GAVELKIND?
- GAVELKIND takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of GAVELKIND:
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