KEN is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. KEN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept KEN?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 49 / 100
Our own measure of how useful KEN is to know. It scores 7 from 3 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for KEN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How KEN scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in KEN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,246.
What does KEN mean in Scrabble?
noun
The range of what a person knows or can see.
Ken survives in general English almost entirely inside one phrase — beyond my ken — and vanishes outside it. In Scotland the verb is alive and ordinary: to ken is simply to know, and ye ken is said a hundred times a day. The noun is the older sailor's sense, the distance within which a ship could be recognised.
How KEN is used
Nearly always with beyond or within — beyond his ken. As a Scots verb it inflects normally: kens, kent.
- The reasoning was beyond his ken and he said so.
- Nothing within our ken explains the noise.
- That kind of money lies outside the ken of anyone on this street.
- She had a wide ken of the trade and no patience for talk.
- The coast came within ken about an hour after dawn.
- Do ye ken the road over the hill?
- It is beyond my ken why they chose that colour.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of KEN and 7 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of KEN
The 3 tiles of KEN in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with KEN
Showing 24 of 57 words that begin with KEN.
Words ending in KEN
Showing 24 of 120 words that end in KEN. Useful as a back hook: play KEN onto a word already on the board.
Words with KEN inside
Showing 24 of 269 words that contain KEN somewhere in the middle. Words that start with KEN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in KEN
Common questions about KEN
- Is KEN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts KEN, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is KEN worth?
- KEN is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does KEN mean?
- The range of what a person knows or can see.
- What letters can be added to KEN?
- KEN takes 4 hooks: 1 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of KEN:
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