KENCH is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. KENCH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept KENCH?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful KENCH is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for KENCH
No single letter turns KENCH into another word.
How KENCH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in KENCH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 261,415.
What does KENCH mean in Scrabble?
noun
rare
A large bin or vat used for salting and curing fish or animal hides.
Workers packed fish or skins tightly into a kench along with salt so that the mixture could cure over several days or weeks. The method was common in fishing ports before refrigeration made long curing unnecessary. A kench needed to drain properly so the brine produced during salting could run off.
How KENCH is used
Mostly found in descriptions of traditional fish-curing and tanning trades rather than modern usage.
- The fishermen packed the catch into a wooden kench with layers of salt.
- Tanners once cured hides in a kench before the modern factory process.
- Salt herring sat in the kench for several weeks to cure fully.
- The museum reconstructed an old fish kench used in the harbor trade.
- Brine slowly drained from the kench through a gap in its base.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of KENCH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with KENCH
1 longer words begin with KENCH.
Shorter words from the letters in KENCH
Common questions about KENCH
- Is KENCH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts KENCH, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is KENCH worth?
- KENCH is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does KENCH mean?
- A large bin or vat used for salting and curing fish or animal hides.
- What letters can be added to KENCH?
- No single letter can be added to KENCH to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of KENCH:
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